Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tape-slashing, to-hell-with-gentlemanliness methods are probably as great a threat as Britain has to offer to bottlenecks in military production, transport and Blitz repair. Millions of Britons also hope that the Beaver, publisher of London's great Daily Express, will throw his weight against needless press censorship and propagandizing...
America's youngest name band will play for the Eliot-Winthrop Dance on the 9th--Same Donahue, who for the past few years has had a chair in the reed sections of the Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, and Harry James bands. Needless to say, you can't go wrong on an alumnus of these orchestras. I've been an admirer of Donahue's style for a long time, and am glad to see that he's finally got a band together...
...following the theory that the best way to maintain it was to stay as completely neutral as possible. Our duty was to take steps to avoid war in the future rather than to make victory certain for the Allies. The policy further opposed summer military camps as a needless measure...
...titans in any era-fighters like Gentleman Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons and Tom Sharkey. And beaten them each, not once, but twice, before retiring as undefeated champion-only to be lured back into the ring again after six years by public clamor for a "White Hope." But that needless humiliation and punishment did more than just mar Jeff's record-it broke his wife's heart. I've never known a woman as devoted to her husband as was Frieda Jeffries. The next day as the train pulled out of Reno she sat holding a little satchel...
...such broadcasts evoked the reply that the Corporation has not yet acted on the matter and will not do so for quite some time. Certainly Harvard need not hesitate to avail itself of the most important present-day method of spreading information and stimulating community thought. And it is needless to say that unnecessary delay on any public matter is, at present, bad business...