Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June 1912, at a little airbase near Washington, D.C., 2nd Lieut. Henry Harley ("Hap") Arnold had a conversation that five-star General Arnold still likes to remember. Infantry Captain Billy Mitchell, 32, had just come back from Japan where he had had a look at the Japanese army. Did Lieut. Arnold know that the Japs had a bigger air force than the U.S.-ten planes to the U.S.'s total of four? Captain Mitchell was writing a paper for the War College on the future of military aviation, but since he had not yet learned to fly he needed...
...seems to be trying to explain why so many G.I.s enthused over, and sometimes married European women. Jerry's Long Island fiancee "combined such perfection of physical beauty, flawlessness of character, uprightness, and unapproachable purity that it was difficult for him to regard her as human." What Jerry liked about WAAF Patches, on the other hand, was not only her attitude about sex but "her silences and her presence, because they were soothing. The thing was, with a little mouse like that who wasn't either pretty or popular, you didn't have...
Pods on the Stream. Almost since it was written, in 1824, this grim, mocking little book has lain like a corpse in the cellar of English literature; people forget it is there until some literary busybody begins nosing around, gets a staggering whiff, and cries for everybody to come see what he has dug up. This printing is only the second in more than a century, and the first ever made in the U.S. Yet Hogg's story is no mean satire; it might serve today as a text on the disease of pride; and above...
...story moves swiftly to a climax in which Hero & friends fail, like Boy Scouts trying to crank a tank, to bring about the first sputter of a revolution. At its best, The Iron Hoop reads like a somber farce. Otherwise it has the curious distinction of being readable and interesting without evoking the slightest sympathy for any of its characters...
...typical problem in education would appear like this: We are given letter grades in four coursed for a certain number of individuals. We would like to pool these letter grades to form a scale of scholastic achievement. Since the distribution of grades in the several courses are quite different, even more variable must be considered in the problem...