Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last. Then, for reasons known only to himself, the Sandman awoke. First, he gained ground on the inside, then he tried the outside. Buzfuz was quitting, and the pacesetter, Fighting Frank, did not appear to have much fight left. In the stretch, Texas Sandman took the lead, wobbled a bit toward the rail, but brazened it out to win first place and $45,150. For a six-year-old, that was pretty good: almost 180 times his $250 purchase price as a yearling. A $2 win ticket on him was worth...
Last week this year's recipient was named: Robert Nishiyama, 22, of Tokyo, ex-pilot in the Kamikaze (suicide) corps. Said he: "I want to try my best to repay Mr. & Mrs. Johnstone for the loss of their son. I can do this only by giving my small bit toward establishing good will between our two countries...
...Army bomber, in the pictures of the vast airplane graveyard, and in the close-ups of the film's characters. Equally impressive are the fine performances given by all who take part in the production; March and Andrews are especially good. This reviewer would have enjoyed the picture a bit more if it had featured Russell's psychological, rather than mechanical, triumph over his artificial hands, and if, in another scene, it had met a bigot's intolerance with an argument instead of a punch. But these are are minor imperfections in a picture whose freshness and sincerity...
When the Star of Cairo reached Rine anna at 2 a.m., Tansey was told the ceiling had fallen a bit; it was 400 feet, but there were signs that it would lift...
Your editorial in the December 19 Crimson praising the War Department Information and Education Program strikes an old I & E non-com like myself as being a bit tragic-comic...