Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trip to Washington impressed on him the hard central fact of Norway's situation-that Norway is such a fine potential plane and submarine base that neither side feels it can afford to let the other side control her. The exchange of notes is not mere diplomatic mumbo-jumbo but a part of the suppressed...
Football & Mumbo Jumbo. There had been time, though, to speak his mind, and some of his dicta on U.S. education had made him a controversial figure. He had called academic freedom "mumbo jumbo," said that "a piece of rubber hose is at times worth ten years of the new [educational] psychology." He had come to Fordham in the days of its great mid '30s football teams, had taken a wartime opportunity to halt football altogether, allowed it to return (in 1946) on only a very chastened scale. Said Gannon: "We want to get [it] off the vaudeville stage...
...fighting Russia. Some even spread the fantastic tale that General Yamashita, whose appeal to the Supreme Court was turned down in 1946, had not been hanged at all and was now in the U.S. as a top military adviser. Most Japanese were simply bewildered by the legal mumbo jumbo of the inscrutable Occidentals. Many an American felt the same...
...Mumbo-Jumbo. Moses professed confusion at Mumford's talk of "hide-and-seek" bushes. Said he: "Having built and run more city and suburban playgrounds than almost anyone else around, and never having seen any designed or operated by Mr. Mumford, I don't know what all this mumbo-jumbo is about...
...Estin captured the scoring honors for the Varsity with one goal in the first period and two in the third. Estin's first score came when he banged the ball off a Tufts fullback into the nets while his other two were kicks from melees in front of the Jumbo nets...