Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defense continued to talk both to the judges and the record. One of Yamashita's aides, whose English was limited, became sorely puzzled. "Who is this Mr. Jackson that Captain Reel is always talking about? He always jumps up and says, 'Jackson.' " When the Americans realized that "Jackson" was the Japanese's understanding of "objection," they told him that Jackson's last name was "Notsustained...
After ripping off tackle on a 53-yard sprint a fortnight ago, Yale's Levi Jackson modestly confessed he couldn't have done it "if Columbia's right tackle had not been blocked out of the play." Last week, in studying the movies of the game (which Yale won 33-7), Columbia Coach Lou Little found out that Halfback Jackson was not quite right. The real explanation: in one of Columbia's modern, high-'frequency substitutions, only ten Columbia men had trotted on to the field. Columbia's right tackle, when Jackson got away...
...American Appraisal Co.; Coverdale & Colpitts; Ebasco Services, Inc.; Ford, Bacon & Davis, Inc.; Jackson & Moreland; Madigan-Hyland; F. H. McGraw & Co.; Sanderson & Porter; Standard Research Consultants, Inc.; Stone & Webster Engineering Corp.; J. G. White Engineering Corp...
Wind in the Willows. The U.S. in the age of Jackson was so raw, tetchy and snarling-proud that its "desire for approbation" and "delicate sensitiveness under censure" constituted "a weakness which amounts to imbecility." Other nations, said Mrs. Trollope, were "thin-skinned, but the citizens of the Union have, apparently, no skins at all; they wince if a breeze blows over them...
...helped to recoup for herself and her five children (of whom Anthony Trollope was to become a far more famous author than his mother) the money lost in "Trollope's Folly." Her new readers of 1949 are likely to laugh, both at Britain's Trollope and Jackson's America. Like Mark Twain, they may even decide that of all books about the U.S. by visiting spitfires, they "like Dame Trollope best." Wrote Twain in one of the suppressed passages of his Life on the Mississippi...