Word: extention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pratt has made good use of captured Japanese documents. The Marines' War is, to a lesser extent, also the Japanese defenders' war. If ever Japan's military schools re-open for business, their instructors will find here a succinct catalogue of Japanese army and navy mistakes. Says Pratt: "One is struck by the fact that the Japanese leaders, naval and military', were always waiting for somebody else to do something. ... In actual contacts, of course, much of the Japanese failure can be traced to the mystical belief that a man with Bushido and a knife...
...schools had grown to such an extent that they were tacitly accepted by both University Hall and the undergraduates. The Faculty and Administration tolerated and even abetted them by quickly ignoring their existence except when there was a flagrant violation of the common law copyright which the University holds on lecture material...
Communist strategists have continually attempted to create such dissatisfaction in this great nation, this "Arsenal of Democracy," up to now by inciting race riots and wild-cat strikes. This philosophy that unrest makes a good breeding-ground for the growth of the Communist Party has succeeded to a large extent in eastern Europe, and to a smaller degree here in the United States...
...time when nearly everyone in this nation is feeling the pressure of exorbitant prices, the Congress has enacted a bill that is pitifully inadequate. . . . The meager authority contained in the bill will be utilized to the fullest extent by the Government, but the public must not be misled into believing that this bill will do the job. I would be shirking my responsibility if I did not protest...
...seven, his kinfolk left him an old Sears, Roebuck guitar and he learned to pluck a few chords and sing a few songs. When he got bigger, he started playing Saturday-night dances for 75? in Henderson, Tenn. Eddy could then afford to spark the girls to the extent of 50?. "And man, you spend that much on a girl where I come from, and she wants you to come back...