Word: licks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From "Uncle Joe" down to the rawest gob, the men and officers of the U. S. Fleet swear they could lick Japan's Navy. In full-dress sea fight they ought to. But in the quiet watches, the bravest must remember Alfred Thayer Mahan's dictum: that a Navy is composed of men, ships, bases. (Admiral Mahan, the high priest of modern navies, died before air power began to confuse sea power.) What the U. S. Navy lacks in the western Pacific, Japan has: a sufficient line of bases...
Mary Shaw was a mountaineer's daughter who went away to college, came back to Deer Lick to teach school and be murdered. The scandal that came out shook even the Sheriff. Solution: as simple as basket weave...
...Jimmy Dorsey band that his ideas are more original and more strikingly Illustrated than those Jungle Gene." Plus the fact that McKinley is somebody's gift to a brass section. While other drummers are pounding away at just keeping good steady time, McKinley is backing the brass on every lick they play and thus adding immeasureably to the lift of the hand...
...have tried to hold dwindling passenger revenues (1926: $1,043,070,646; 1939: $416,573,621) against auto, bus and airplane competition. Lately, streamliners, cheaper fares, faster service, etc., have helped. But the No. 1 thorn in the railroads' side, the auto, stuck fast. Last week, unable to "lick 'em," the railroads decided to "jine...
Johnny Harvard '43, hot lick artist on the slide trombone, easily made the Harvard Band last fall. But the hand of welcome was extended palm up: $5.00 for dues, $9.00 for use of uniform, and another $5.00 as a deposit against fines and incidentals. The return for this sum and six hours of practice a week was free admission to the football games, a few hockey and basketball matches, an H.A.A.-sponsored trip to Princeton by bus and second-rate boat, a watch fob at the annual banquet (for which Johnny shelled out another $2.90). Many of his classmates...