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...McDaniels, Happie Willsie, and Joe "Clarion" Hamilton. He returned to his room late Sunday evening after a long bull session with Harry "Alligator" Munroe '43 on the double-tonguing and the comparative merits of the French horn in Tallahassee style and played through his album, soaking in each hot lick, until three in the morning...
Differences. In World War I, the British did lick the submarine menace. After the terrible losses (394,700 tons) of April 1917, the worst month of unrestricted submarine warfare, the convoy system was devised. And it worked. Of all the British ships convoyed across the Atlantic in 1917 and 1918, 99.08% reached their destinations safely. Destroyers learned how to spot and sink U-boats. By the end of the war, destroyers and their depth charges had reduced the rate of sinkings by 71%. The striking difference between this record and that of World War II is the result of strikingly...
...there are thousands of us who have worked like hell since '31 and '32 trying to lick a depression, get experience, get established, to climb the ladder . . . yet we gladly chuck it all to serve our country. Now, some of the boys are declaring strikes over petty arguments or small wage increases and in so doing bottleneck industry which makes possible a well-equipped Army...
...Havana, where his prancing Dodgers, looking less than ever like the flyblown crocks who were once Brooklyn's most predictable annual ornament, were fixing to lick the Giants, the draft (see p. 51), and all baseball attendance records, brash, red-haired Flatbush Boss Larry ("Barnum") MacPhail welcomed another boss to the Dodgers' Havana training ground, shook cordial hands with brash, black-haired Cuban President Fulgencio Batista...
...sent a research chemist, Harvard's bespectacled young president, James Bryant Conant, as head of a mission to gather scientific data on England's machinery of war. Back from England came trusted Harry Hopkins. At LaGuardia Field, he told reporters: "I don't think Hitler can lick these people. I think he's up against as tough a crowd as there is, and I think they have the military stuff, with the help we can give them, to win. It won't be a stalemated war." Then he sped to the Hotel Roosevelt...