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...inquisitive, not just advisory; 2) its work is done by civilians, not professional military technologists. Among the Committee's eight members, Major General Richard Curtis Moore and Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen* coordinate its work with projects of Army and Navy technicians. But the Committee is free to pluck suggestions from anywhere-from scientists, amateur tinkerers, soldiers in the ranks-and, if an idea looks good, instantly assign the best U.S. scientists to explore it. Unlike the Army and Navy specialists, who cannot stick their necks out, NDRC is willing, in the spirit of all academic and industrial science...
...mind, dear, I think I will stop for a bit as-My Lord, they have dropped something not far away, the house shook-my hand is getting tired. I am going to read your letter and see if it will give me a bit of pluck...
...Answer, originally conceived as a $30,000 production, was rushed into view because, said Marc Blitzstein, "it's later than we think and it has something to say that I want said right now." No For An Answer is about Greeks, but its references to Greek pluck are purely coincidental: Composer-Librettist Blitzstein began it more than two years ago, when most people thought of Greeks as hamburger-joint men. Mr. Blitzstein's Greeks are waiters in a summer hotel. They form a Diogenes Social Club, which burgeons into a union. A young upper-class couple fall...
Last week 136 contestants showed up: men & women, black & white, day laborers, land-owning farmers from eleven States. Some came as free-lance pickers (paying their own $10 entry fee), but the majority represented civic-minded cotton communities. Each entrant was given two half-mile rows to pluck. A good cotton picker, pacing himself for a day's work in the field, averages from 18 to 35 lb. an hour. But last week's pickers were after something more than a day's pay. When the two-hour limit was up, one of the pickers had turned...
...drinks and darts in the pub around the corner. Being endowed with exaggerated poetic imagination, the nation got a mild case of "crisis stomach" worrying about bombing and gassing, about Mr. Chamberlain and what would happen after the war. But through it all ran a thin wire of pluck, which showed itself best in humor. Those were the days when a West End druggist put a placard in his window: "Bismuth as usual during altercations...