Word: manual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...melody (strong sympathies and emotions) or hard, staccato timbre (calm and determined will power). His reactions to sounds are tried. His hand writing and physical appearance are analyzed. As a test of leadership, he is given a group of infantry soldiers whom he must instruct and supervise in some manual operation, such as assembling a prefabricated bridge...
...tomorrow, live among them, work with them, play with them, organize their spare-time activities. They are another instance of how the Roman Catholic Church has flourished for so long: by fostering religious orders suited to the times-Benedictines in the Dark Ages to give a Christian meaning to manual labor, Franciscans in the 13th Century to offset the Church's luxury, Jesuits in the 16th Century to lead the Counter-Reformation...
Said the Secretary of the Building Trades Federation, asking for a return to the six-day week: "Men cannot be expected to carry on at heavy manual labor all the hours God sends, day after day, without a break...
...judging fighting effectiveness, McNair's manual left little to umpires' whims. For 1941's maneuvers every officer will know what it means when an attack plane slips up on his outfit while it is marching in column. It means 10% casualty, and it should teach him to keep his eyes open and his men dispersed. Officers know that for every minute an infantry outfit lies in the fire of an enemy battery it loses 1%, that every time a tank gets within 100 yards of infantry soldiers they lose 3%. These and all other foreseeable battle contingencies...
...housewives the Safeway invasion means more self-service stores, more butcher shops. (Many Reeves stores now lack meat counters, undoubtedly will get them.) Biggest single item in the Safeway turnover: beef. It will be sold by well-shaven, well-breakfasted clerks without mustaches. So Safeway's Employes' Manual decrees...