Word: loree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest shortage in the Organized Reserves was in specialists for work in such civilian arts as publicity, procurement, building, etc., but the lack did not worry the Army long. Officers in specialist assignments need little military lore. Newspaper and advertising men, contractors, engineers, businessmen who volunteered for service when mobilization began, found themselves in officers' uniforms as soon as the Army satisfied itself that they knew their civilian callings. (Most celebrated case: commissioning of Radioman Elliott Roosevelt as a captain in the Specialist Reserve...
Filled with such classroom lore, Edgewood students pass their examinations with their noses, must be flunked if their sense of smell is subnormal. Sniffing daintily while instructors release small concentrations of gas, they identify chemical agents by their odors. Mustard smells like garlic, lewisite like geraniums, phosgene like musty hay or green corn, tear gas like apple blossoms. No man has yet devised a war gas that is odorless. Until someone does, the nose of a battalion gas officer, sharpened at Edgewood, will still be the No. 1 defense against...
Government. Too sickly to attend school, he was tutored in Turkish and in military strategy by a disinherited German nobleman-cowboy; a Turkish scholar taught him Asiatic lore. Thus primed, in 1935 Hathaway went to Bombay, thence to Tibet and Turkestan, where he fought with a bloodthirsty Mohammedan chieftain against the Bolsheviks. Captured, he spent 116 days in solitary confinement in a Soviet prison, made his lucky exit via the Gobi desert to Shanghai. Whatever the facts of his curious adventures, Author "Ramal" is a vivid writer, nearly rivals the fantastic imaginings of Frederic Prokosch's The Asiatics...
Author Jesse Stuart also presents many lush, loving descriptions of the weather, lore and labor of a Kentucky year, a rich anthology of the deliciousness of country living which does not dodge the fact that country living can break backs, brains and lives. Shaggy and slewfooted, Trees of Heaven is good all the same, with the fragrance and, in spots, the inedibility, of a large warm country supper...
...first bits of Harvard lore a Freshman picks up is that "tutors are so busy writing books they don't have any time to tutor." But one group of tutors, members of the Cambridge Union of University Teachers, have taken their noses out of their monographs and shirked their tutorial conferences long enough to make a thorough analysis of Harvard's unique tutorial system. Complete and well-documented like most Teachers' Union reports, this one steers clear of the polemics on tenure and academic freedom with which the Union has become unfavorably associated in the minds of Faculty conservatives...