Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Court in Los Angeles. In a ruling which the Motion Picture Daily called "precedent-establishing," the judge declared that to add the accumulated lost time of her seven suspensions to the seven calendar years of her contract "would amount to virtual peonage." Warner Bros. declared that it had just begun to fight...
...cost of war (though military men are reluctant to admit the public to the reckoning). In Sicily the abnormally high losses obviously were the result in large part of command. Commanders had delayed in notifying ships and soldiers that friendly aircraft were expected. Once the misdirected fire had been begun, trigger-happy gunners became so infected they continued shooting even after their officers had shouted: "Cease firing...
Less than two years ago, sharp, angry Colonel Hugh J. Knerr of the Army Air Forces was in the doghouse. One of the air arm's crack staff officers, Hugh Knerr had been retired for physical disabilities in 1939, had forthwith begun to write and speak. Target of most of his word bombardment: the admirals of the Navy and their limited view of air power. His remedy for this situation: a separate air force, poison to any devout Navy...
...harrowed in six inches deep and the soil is packed hard with a steam roller. The result is a smooth, dry surface that sheds water like a duck's back. It is good for tennis courts, athletic fields, earth dams-and especially for roads. The Army has already begun to use it for roads and airfields...
What Big Teeth You Have. With disarming modesty, Author Adler confesses that only recently has he begun to think about war and peace at all. But this is only mock modesty, the grandmother's cap which Adler wears to distract attention from his sharp eyes and wolf's teeth. Walter Lippmann, Herbert Hoover, Hugh Gibson, Sumner Welles, the editors of the New York Times and the Popes of Rome are a few of the more important thinkers on war and peace who feel the crunch of the Adler incisors...