Word: distinctions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second and third rankings are held by Decker Orr and Tom Sears, probably in that order. Orr, a hard-hitter who was ineligible last year, and Sears, who plays a similar game, are both regarded by Barnaby as distinct threats to Felt's number one rank. Sears lost his Yale match last year 3-2 to Dick Cooley, who later reached the final round in the Intercollegiate Championships...
...size of the British. With the fall of France in 1940, he made a complete about-face, and became one of the outstanding collaborationists in the Vichy regime. The attack by the British on the French fleet at Oran solidified his dislike of England, and he became a distinct Anglophobe. His capture in Algiers by the American forces put him in an uncomfortable position, but he squirmed out of it with another rat-like twist by promising to cooperate with the Allies...
...frankly believe that we have made a distinct improvement over the traditional format. We have substituted informal pictures of numerous professors in all fields. Furthermore, in order to get the articulation of the Faculty's attitude on the relation of their work to the war, we have asked three professors in the major areas of concentration to write articles for us. These articles, by Professors Matthiessen, Brinton, and Thimann, make extremely good reading. Combined with a group of excellent pictures of various professors, they make the Faculty section a lively and interesting...
...years' work in Washington, placed a heavy bet on the U.S. Seated beneath a portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Minister Soong declared that the U.S. was building "a great army, a tough army, an army that will be unbeatable. I came away from the United States with the distinct impression that uphill toil is now over. I left Washington with a feeling of restrained optimism. One is struck by the tremendous efforts exerted by the American people...
...newspaper reading public, which the news from the Solomons has kept in a mood of sustained optimism for the past several weeks, received a distinct shock about halfway through breakfast yesterday morning to see that "we are still losing the war in the Pacific." This startling announcement came from Republican Representative Melvin Maas of Minnesota, who gave a radio address on Thursday night with this as his punch point. To add to the confusion, Maas threw in the old story of no unified command and lack of cooperation between Army and Navy--all of this on top of recent assurances...