Word: armored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fields; music & lyrics by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart; produced by Mr. Rodgers) is not a straight revival. Suspecting that nobody would walk a mile for a Camelot he saw 16 years ago, Messrs. Fields, Rodgers & Hart have redecorated King Arthur's court - waxed the Round Table, polished the armor, restrung the harps, put a Navy uniform on the startled and startling visitor. The result, despite a slow start and a rather trying book, is a likable and lilting piece of Yankee-panky...
...troops behave under fire is the test of all military training and leadership. More than arms and armor, the basic elements in any battle are the human factors loosely called "fear" and "courage." This week a scholarly analysis, Fear in Battle tried to put these imponderables into statistical form. Its author: Professor John Dollard, research associate in social anthropology in Yale's Institute of Human Relations...
Throughout the amazing interior is a collection of museum pieces and antiques--the result of an unfortunate habit of 'Poon alumni of storing their attic overflows in the Sanctum. A fine suit of medieval Japanese armor stands at the south window of the Great Hall, and has occasionally been donned by the President during police raids. The window itself contains pieces of 14th century stained glass from the Church of St. Augustine at Canterbury, England...
...Friendly Editors will supply in concentrated lessons what you lack in experience. In Harvard's only course in journalistic style, all comers will learn how to be gentle, how to be sentimental, how to boost subtly a pet idea, and, last but not least, how to don the silver armor (which hangs freshly polished, semperparatus, behind the Managing Editor's desk) and ride roughshod over the tyrants of University Hall and drive the money changers from Lehman. They will be received in the dressing rooms of stars of the legitimate and illegitimate stages and interview the aspirants to fame that...
...magnetic interference and variations. There is less interference from ship metal or electrical apparatus than in the magnetic compass, because the pickup coils need not be in the navigator's cabin, can be installed where they will not be affected by the ship's bomb load or armor...