Word: loring
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Last week, like a recording needle caught in a groove, the campaign was repeating itself for the fourth time. Four Japanese columns drove south on the city. All through southeast Asia Japanese columns were moving forward in just such a fashion, using the lore acquired in four and a half years of war: swift deployment, individual initiative, shelter-and-assault. But only at Changsha were the Japanese faced with soldiers who had experience against the Japanese and who know how to apply the countertactics of dispersion, road destruction and depth-defense...
...less fantastic than this lore from Pliny's Natural History* was the fertilization of rabbits reported before the sober American Philosophical Society last week. Not the wind but simply cold, applied by ice packs to the bellies of doe rabbits, made them pregnant, reported Physiologist Herbert Shapiro of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College...
...mother's, Tommy Hart was an undersized 15-year-old when he won his appointment to the Naval Academy. There he was derisively christened "Dad." Puny, next to the youngest in his class, he wobbled along For a couple of years, picking up a bit of wooden-ship lore on summer cruises in square-riggers, distinguishing himself not at all. But in his last two years at the Academy he began to get the hang of things, soon was holding his own with older classmates, serving as coxswain for the Academy's first cutter crew. He graduated 13th...
...loved carnival life: Coney Island, Hollywood, roller coasters, ice cream. He gorged himself on everything from terrapin to ham & eggs, ate from three to six desserts, became "irritated" if his friends stopped at one. An opera, painting, baseball fan, he astonished musicians and sports experts with his lore...
Full of years and honors, rich in curious lore and master if lethal epigram, an archetype of the New England schoolmaster has crossed over to where the Shakespearean-Baconian controversy has long since been settled. No that it ever troubled George Lyman Kittredge, Gurney professor of English at Harvard University ("I will admit that Bacon wrote them if you will tell me who wrote Bacon"), for he had better use for his time. Jack Macy used to do an impersonation of Kittredge (in "Kitty's" presence), excoriating every known editor of Shakespeare. I have been too busy for the pawst...