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Professor Renshaw has proved that the human eye, properly trained, can observe instantly a complicated object (such as a tank or an airplane) and impress it as a whole upon the mind. At his Navy Recognition School at Columbus, Ohio, he taught 4,000 officers from all branches of the armed services how to do this trick. As graduate instructors, they trained servicemen to tell friend from foe before the foe got too close...
...protest. You have been badly misinformed. Not a single president or dictator in my country has taken advantage of his position to enrich himself. Every one of them . . . has been an honest man. Dr. Velasco Ibarra, indeed, speaks frequently about graft from his predecessors as a political trick to impress the mob. It is one of his many low political tricks...
...Patton makes a mistake, at least he's making an effort to impress in the strongest way upon the public that we must end wars! Goddamit, isn't there any one on your staff who has the courage to defend a great...
...Warm-Up. Annapolis left less of its conservative impress on Halsey than on most of its graduates. He acquired less book learning than many, graduating two-thirds of the way down his class ('04), but he kept more of his individuality as a rough & tough scrapper, quick to make up his mind and fearless in action. He became the kind of man around whom legends grow...
...past our education has lacked certain important elements. One of these is a program to impress the young man and woman with a sense of responsibility to the national society. ... If it were simply taken for granted as part of our educational scheme that every man devote a year of his life directly to the nation, not only would we keep ourselves in fair national physical condition but we would have presented our people with at least one common experience, one duty common to all. From the rich playboy to the sweating coal miner, each man would have this...