Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usefulness of eyes is as various as their color. A man may be unable to judge the speed of distant motion, yet be a good inspector of small parts. Most eyes have an aptitude for some special type of vision -distant or near, wide or narrow angled; or for the judgment of space, shape or motion; or for rapid change of focus. Industry stands to profit by selecting eyes for special jobs, adjust jobs to the eyes available...
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the flashy plug-ugly who became one of the war's great soldiers, is Inspector General of Western Defenses. At 52 Rommel still enjoys a home reputation little tarnished by the thrashing he finally took in Africa. His command, the mobile task force, is the ideal instrument for his attributes of daring and ingenuity, if he still has them...
...from the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, and from the Army War College in 1931, Colonel Purdon was on the War Department General Staff from 1932 to 1936, and following his three year voluntary retirement, he returned to active duty in January, 1941, with the Inspector General's Department of the 1st Service Command...
Next day Commander in Chief de Gaulle sent a soothing letter to Inspector General Giraud: ". . . By making you its high military adviser . . . the Government gives expression to the trust it places in you and to its intention ... to make use of your outstanding military qualities. . . ." Replied Giraud: "I am not resigning...
Whistling in Brooklyn (M.G.M.). Whistle in Brooklyn, and sooner or later a Dodger will turn up. They all turn up toward the climax of this melocomic fracas, in which Red Skelton clowns around in House-of-David-style false whiskers in order to warn a police inspector that the trusted friend sitting next him at a ball game is a homicidal maniac. The story is strenuously pasted together for laughs, but some of its comic assault & battery hits the funnybone, while Red Skelton, his idiotic beard and imbecilic lack of interest in the game he is supposed to pitch, sometimes...