Word: forearmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago, war turned the entire Government into a great mechanic. Now for both war and peace aims, the Government keeps in touch with mechanical progress. So its liaison officer, Assistant Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, the man whose special function it is to foresee and mechanically to forearm for war, was on hand to open the session on National Defense. He set forth the two basic ideas of the War Department: 1) industrial preparedness as assurance against war; 2) the apportionment of its burdens in accordance with pre- arranged plans, so that the burdens might be equalized...
Like Glenna Collett, pensive golfer, Helen masks her competitive ardors with a sphinxlike countenance. Sport writers have dubbed her "Poker Face." Also like Glenna, she has the wrist and forearm of a strongish...
...first thought that the Premier had been fatally wounded, but subsequent investigation showed that the bullet had merely gone through the fleshy part of his right forearm and skinned the chest muscles of his right side...
Dartmouth suffered an unfortunate break two weeks ago when Austin, speedy right fielder, ran into the stands while in pursuit of a foul fly, fracturing a bone in his left forearm. He is out for the season. He led off the Dartmouth batting order and had hit for 280 in 18 games while fielding his position without a miscue...
Edmund S. Stout Jr., Princeton's strong left wing and captain-elect of the football team who received a severe cut on his left forearm in the Princeton hockey game with Dartmouth two weeks ago, is to be discharged from the Boston City Hospital today...