Word: hand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President and consulting the joint chiefs of staff, Secretary Johnson bought the Air Force point of view. His order would not wipe out the Navy's air arm or even reduce it. Its World War II carriers (21 all told, excluding light and escort carriers) would be on hand as a prime defense against submarines, and as floating fighter, dive-bomber and torpedo-plane bases. The Navy accepted the decision glumly and tersely. One flying admiral said: "On the record, no comment; off the record, no comment...
...stumbled through alleys and courts littered with tin cans, gritty with cinders and broken glass, past tar-paper shacks and sagging frame and brick houses where rents ranged from $12 to $30 a month. They ducked under clothes drying on lines strung across the alleys. A policeman waved a hand at the rows of backyard privies: "We found a man frozen to death in one of these toilets last winter," he told them casually...
...Take heed, therefore, an is that want: for a measly few hours will pass before thy chance is at hand...
M.I.T. on the other hand is vastly improved. The Engineers did not even have a full team for the early season encounter and since then has bolstered itself with a new shipment of ruggers, including two or more bona fide Englishmen. Tech is especially strong in the "hooker" position, the middle man in the front row of the scrum who tries to kick the ball back to his backs...
...case is a fluke and has no meaning at all. Too many manage to do just about what the C-plus man did, term after term in course after course, for this case to be thrown off as a fluke. Although these people are enrolled in the course at hand, and ordinarily have performed some token act of preparation for the examination, there are no basic differences between the stories they tell and the story of the student who got the C-plus. They, too, get grades completely out of proportion to their knowledge or understanding of a course...