Word: recommends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Geographic obstacles and poor communications should not be permitted to dim the value of this front. Retrospective foresight would recommend that the estimated losses of a year be concentrated and accepted in an offensive that would not only eject the Japanese from Karafuto [southern half of Sakhalin] but follow them into Hokkaido, with Honshu [the main Japanese island] and Tokyo as the objective. This is direct war in its simplest form. Because the successive fronts are narrow, Japan's advantage in numbers would not prove decisive. Because of the wild nature of the northern Nipponese islands, the resourcefulness...
...glint of the copper bug-barriers caught the metal-hungry eye of Army men commandeering vital materials for industry, and the screens were melted up. Veterans of past insect wars recommend mosquito-netting canopies for the beds of those who would sleep in peace...
Rubens' first wife was perfect in every respect save passion; his second, who was 16 when he married her in his 503, had passion alone to recommend her. But for an aging man who had been careful all his life, that was enough. He painted her as Venus in furs, as all three Graces, and (for her bedroom) as a pornographic maiden attacked by a shepherd. He had had plenty of practice when he received from the King of Spain an order for 112 pictures on Ovid's Metamorphoses ("Never has any painter received so gigantic a commission...
...Edward A. O'Neal, president, American Farm Bureau Federation: "We recommend the consideration of a plan of enforced savings...
...Irving Fisher, Yale economist: "I do not recommend this plan, not at present at least...