Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the men lost their driving judgment. But one improved for a time. His explanation: he was so nervous from being around cops that the liquor steadied him. After 15 pints had gone into the human guinea pigs, the police took their subjects gently home in police cars...
Kickback. Author Riess sketches the no less intricate devices which hold South America, Mexico, the Near East, before the Nazi fluoroscope. He tells of the not too satisfactory efforts to collaborate with the Japanese, who invented total espionage, but who lack judgment and are also stingy with information of value...
...music as the Toccata in F that Weinrich is playing will be enjoyed by a good many people for its directness and simplicity of utterance, and a certain Germanic vigor, but that after a time, Buxtehude will return to the dust from whence he sprung, in the last judgment valuable only as an influence. Sweelinck, too, will prove to many that importance does not necessarily mean dullness, but will then creep back into his historic little cubby-hole, into that dictionary significance which is only one shelf above oblivion. But a recital including works by these men, work which...
...visualize an even greater use of the technique when peace comes and a vast surplus of men, materials and productive capacity calls for the vision and leadership to translate these resources from production for war to production for peace. When that time comes it is my judgment that if we are intelligent and resourceful, new and vast horizons will open for us all. Our job now is to hasten that...
Despite their understandable urge to make haste, British tyros usually need plenty of grooming. They are not too well acquainted with machines, three-fourths of them have never learned to drive a car, and their judgment of speed is limited or nonexistent. Baffled by U.S. slang, most of them need informal instruction before they get the hang of it. Not long ago, a U.S. instructor in a plane with a 21-year-old British youngster advised him to "give her the gun." Said the youth: "But, sir, I have no gun. In England we are not allowed to carry them...