Word: manual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McNair's Manual. "An armistice or rest period during a maneuver-for example, at night-lessens realism and training value," says McNair's manual for maneuver umpires. Similarly he washed out such practices as crossing bridges marked demolished by the enemy forces. In other days, troops waited a proper period (used in real action to bridge a stream), then marched across. From now on they must get around demolished bridges the best way they can-but not across the original bridge. Prohibited too was the old practice of marking open fields and woods as held by forces...
...chaplain's official training manual five times tells them they must have a sense of humor. "If you don't have a sense of humor when you get in the Army," said a chaplain in Texas last week, "the boys give...
...steelworker's 84? . Meantime the planemakers have raided the labor pools of other industries, are putting many a white-collar youth to work with his hands. "It is too early to tell, but this expanding migration of bookkeepers and clerks and filling-station attendants into the manual skills of the defense industries may be the beginning of a revolution in U. S. public-school education and in the 'whitecollar culture...
Next week Warner Brothers releases the biggest Capra-Riskin picture to date, Meet John Doe. Capra-Riskin produced it independently, spent seven months on it and $1,100,000. They sat down at a great Hollywoodian organ, used every last stop, smote every key on every manual. Yet they built their music around one of the simplest and oldest of themes: LOVE THY NEIGHBOR...
...women who have spent their lives in one trade can switch to writing as successfully as this. But for Aline Bernstein it was quite natural. Her writing combines a theatre worker's feeling for mannered grace in gesture and interiors with the lithe conversational style of a skilled manual worker, a cultivated peasant. Hers is sentimental writing, but it is good enough to melt in the mouth...