Word: memoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardy groups who have dared to play a hand or two of bridge daily despite hell, high weather and disbursing problems. If such a group exists we salute it for having the intestinal fortitude to take much needed mental recreation. It is entirely possible to get the meat of Memo and Manual assignments in the compulsory study period and to work most of the problems assigned. Then a few hands of bridge before the lights go out might conceivably make sleeping a little easier. And if we must have night-mares it is far better to dream that we overpaid...
Point up the issue - To expand a 1-page memo to 15 pages...
...Office memo - A typewritten statement one reads, initials, forgets to remember and hands to someone who has seen it before...
...percent for the house." Mr. Harry Muff, "Have you heard the one about the traveling salesman ..." Mr. Chiddister, "Why did I apply for a commission ... life was sure wonderful at Great Lakes." Mr. Baldwin, "The is placed before an on page 63 of the Manual, whereas in the Memo the and is before the the--could you please explain this?" Mr. Bunje. "Take it from me life in the South Sea Islands is all right." Mr. Block, "Boy, could I have a good time in the South Sea is lands," Mr. Dutton, "Life wasn't like this with Du Pont...
There is also the theory promoted among the Juniors that we should send the Gestapo copies of the Manual, Memo and Specimens . . . with no explanations. . . . They figure it would drive Adolf aunts trying to figure them out. We'd hate to see how voluminious the Manual and Memo would be in Japanese. A supply officer in the Jap Navy would probably have to have a "can" to cart his instructions around...