Word: getting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teachers (preferably married) should have a balanced outlook on life, be optimistic, poised, sympathetic to young people's problems, of upright character. A teacher must also be able to see that sex is sometimes funny, must be able to use humor without vulgarity, must never le his pupils get the impression that they have heard more dirty jokes than...
...when the race was for three-year-olds only, famed War Admiral came close to being humiliated by a horse named Masked General; in 1938 gallant Seabiscuit proved his superiority over War Admiral, his longtime rival, in their first get-together...
...story has no more twists than a propeller, but moves at about the same speed. Brad Reynolds (Randolph Scott) is thirtyish and already too old for the airlines. The Civil Aeronautics Authority gives him a chance to get younger men off the ground, try to teach them to stay up. One morning a scary youngster freezes the controls, then while Brad is righting the plane, gracefully bails out. Brad later finds him, somewhat battered, dangling from a tree over a canyon. In rescuing the boy he falls himself, breaks both legs. A lad who has never before been alone...
...good fright. He mustn't be brainy. . . . I would rather have a stupid, vain jackass who can give the Reds a juicy answer . . . than a dozen learned professors sitting trembling on the wet trouser leg of facts. . . . Oh-and he must be a bachelor. Then we shall get the women. . . ." They study the man at the other table, then call out to him: "HITLER! HITLER! . . ." Such was the opening this week of a new propaganda serial staged by British Broadcasting Corp. Its name: The Shadow of the Swastika. Its story: the careers of the Nazi bully boys from beer...
...Heard last week over many a British loudspeaker: "You people are so safe, you imagine. We know where your ARP stations are, but our bombers could get you before you got there!" The wave length was Hamburg's but Britons had a vile suspicion that the broadcasts came from "somewhere in England," were perhaps a belated Nazi-planted reply to the irrepressible German Freedom Radio (TIME...