Word: damns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will have a tendency to neglect drinking sufficient water on the theory that perhaps you are absorbing enough of the damn stuff through the pores of your skin. This theory is not borne out by the best scientific thought...
...enough of some subsidiary color in each collage to "perfume or accent" the dominant color. "This perfume," says Varda, "makes the painting sing." Sometimes he gets effects of transparency by dabbing nuances of background color on foreground subjects. As long as the effect is stimulating and gay, Varda says: Damn the blotches...
Well, something's got to be done pretty damn quick or we'll be catching people calling the Yard, "the campus." Publish pamphlets, pound it into their ears at compulsory meetings, take om out on Friday nights and got om drunk, do anything, only do it quick! If you don't, they'll sink into the morass of integrals and compulsory exercise, and will be a total loss to civilization, not to say a pack of terrific bores at class reunions...
...worker in war industries has been under great production pressure for almost two years, and he is getting a bit tired, both physically and mentally. This fatigue is not entirely from physical effort; a greater part of it is mental. The reasons are simple: he is damn weary of the confusion and turmoil of Washington politics...
Black-browed, snow-haired John Carlton Ward Jr., president of Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp., is not normally a Gloomy Gus. Generally he is too busy making good his promise to build huge wood-veneer bomber-crew trainers-"the biggest damn airplanes out of wood that anyone ever thought of" (TIME, June 1, 1942). But last week, in his official capacity as president of the East Coast Aircraft War Production Council, 50-year-old Carl Ward caught the headlines with some very Gloomy-Gus talk. Said...