Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What is the purpose of all this work, and to that use can the conclusions be put? Dr. Health has said: "Large endowments have been made for the study of tuberculosis, cancer, the mentally sick, criminals, and delinquents. But the people who are not a drag on the community, who do the work of the world, and who do not need attention are majority in the world. If they are frustrated, the world is frustrated. Their happiness is the world's happiness. Because the average man in Germany had lost confidence in himself and his nation, Hitler rose to power...
...latter category, Richard Barthelmess' daughter Mary is unquestionably the most beautiful and the most pleasant. A great deal of credit also goes to pinch-hitter Jolyon Baker for his playing of the nephew-in-everybody'shair, which he learned in the afternoon before the opening. Except for an occasional drag where clever dialogue fails to make up for lack of action, and the overplaying of a couple of necessarily riotous scenes, "George Washington Slept Here" is a happy beginning for the coming season at Brattle Hall...
...coastal fires were the work of Axis agents, their purpose was twofold: to cloak submarines from the prying eyes of U.S. aircraft on patrol; to drag men from vital war factories to fight the fires. Fire-fighting manpower was at a low ebb. The draft had cut deeply into the ranks of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Soldiers and sailors banded together with hastily recruited citizens to dig trenches, fell trees...
...combat services he would lick the Japs and Nazis in a wink, and the war isn't going to end that soon. On the other hand, he can't afford to lose the respect of millions by failing to do his bit or by letting the war drag...
There was quite a coterie of Harvard men lending their services to the Met that evening. Paul Jaretzki had some special drag somewhere and had been assigned the task of doing out supernumerary jobs to undergraduates here. Anyone who would buy him a beer or promise him a scotch could get a little card admitting him to the stage door of the Metropolitan Theatre on the evening of the performance...