Word: outwits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down in Virginia's cedar-dotted Fort Belvoir, where the U. S. Army runs its only experimental camouflage laboratory, camoufleurs study how to outwit stereopticon, infrared and color photography from airplanes, try to solve such apparently insoluble problems as what to do when tanks are concealed in deep shadow and the sun goes behind a cloud; how to camouflage a truck, when an aerial camera can pick up a tireprint on the grass "almost from the stratosphere." They also experiment with dazzle v. solid color camouflage...
...landscapers landscapers of the College have adopted a new strategy to outwit Nature. Feigning indifference to the weather, the M.D. squads have recently scaled the walls of the Houses, busily dabbing paint all over, as if to prepare for a spring they know will come. So, it appears the struggle between the resolute M. D. men and obstinate Nature has come to a stalemate. Students who are pining away for a glimpse of genuine green vegetation can make a pilgrimage to the Biological Laboratories building. There are green home there...
...stirred was Utah's ordinarily placid New Dealer Elbert Thomas that a "vision" came to him in bed. He got up at 2 a. m. to write a speech which he delivered next day in the Senate. "To attempt to coerce is fatal, to attempt to outwit is disastrous," thundered Senator Thomas. "Presidents will continue to be made and unmade in the actions of the Senate of the United States." When Senators rushed up to thump Elbert Thomas' back, congratulate him, invite him to lunch, he weakly smiled that he wanted to go home...
Decision on that point may be reached after this year's maneuvers, devoted to "Fleet Problem XX," the defense of the eastern shores of the U. S. and (in theory) the Republics of Latin America. An invading "White" fleet will try to outwit defending "Blacks," capture an operating base near the U. S. or Central America. This is no impractical game. Without such a base in Bermuda, the Bahamas or the West Indies, no European invader can get far in the Western Hemisphere. How much of a fleet is necessary in the Atlantic to prevent a foreign navy from...
Seeking Divorce. Sacha Guitry, 53, famed French actor-author; from his third wife, Cinemactress Jacqueline Delubac, 28; in Paris. To outwit the French divorce laws and prevent his wife from filing a countersuit on the ground that he left home, Guitry took up residence in the American Hospital...