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...response from a crisp little note from the Administrative office ... quote: "The Service News would like its copy by Tuesday a. m, if possible ... and make it hot!" Wonder which secretary 'ad libbed" that item to the note...
...through the war point to its basic weaknesses. Course credit for tutorial now enables men to take it who otherwise could not, and it encourages more thorough work. It was a necessary step, for the war. But after the war the problem will remain of how to tighten and crisp tutorial, and make it for all students the stimulating experience it has been for some...
Handwritten in noiseless offices, handset slowly during the evening, printed on flatbed presses, censored on the proof sheets after midnight, the Chungking papers with their vertical headlines and back-to-front pagination are a wonder to Westerners. The style of Chinese news writing ranges from crisp American formulas learned in U.S. schools of journalism to the elegant circumlocutory prose of Chinese tradition, in which the Japanese are always referred to as "dwarf bandits" and the loss of a city is conveyed by the announcement that "our troops have trapped the enemy at -, and are now surrounding...
...swung crisply from a company street. A band fell in at the head of the column, flashed back the bright Florida sun from its burnished instruments as it thumped the Army Air Corps march. Its song rose and fell against a discordant background: the muffled thud of shotguns, the crisp crack of .30-caliber machine guns, the sulky bark...
...Marshall, who started drumming for Fletcher Henderson over twenty years ago. He was with Fletcher for over eight years, during which time the band reached its zenith and became the greatest jazz mer. He doesn't drum for the listeners, he drums for the band. He has a fine, crisp beat, and never get in the way of the soloists...