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Editor Waldrop didn't have much of a point. In World War II, censors snipped out violations of security. But they sent along letters telling of just such incredible exploits, although they were often aware that they came from rear-echelon soldiers trying to impress the folks back home. The armed forces called such letters "snow jobs," (i.e., piling it on), and most newspapers checked such letters before printing them. In failing to do so, the Times-Herald got trapped in the snow...
...thousands who will stomp their feet in the Stadium this afternoon and will cry for the ridiculous or the impossible, and will be genuinely disappointed when it does not occur. They are as wrong as the men who run the colleges which buy the best football players to impress the men who are wrong in their first assumptions...
...vehement letters, copies of which are in my possession, as well as his very unusual correspondence with Ted O. Thackrey, of the "Daily Compass," in which Thackrey accuses him of voting criminally. How, further, can his statement that nobody of the Harvard Observatory made any effort to harm or impress the publication of "Worlds in Collision" be squared with the letter of his assistant. Professor Fred I. Whipple, to the Blakiston Company. Philadelphia, a subsidiary of Doubleday in which he gave the ultimation that Doubleday, who took over the book from Macmillan, should stop its publication under the threat that...
...text Fairfield discusses such problems as the vague generality which will enable the student to impress the course grader. Fairfield cites a number of statements which he then explains can be used in any examination in that particular field...
...like a sahib," Orwell pumped his bullets in the animal's hide, reflecting "that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys . . . For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the 'natives,' and so in every crisis he has got to do what the 'natives' expect of him. He wears a mask, and his face grows...