Word: refered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavily sentimental as an old college athlete, especially an old footballer. To Manhattan's Dean Hill (Georgia Tech '12), football is the old-time religion. He helped found New York's Touchdown Club to foster good-fellowship among Varsity lettermen, takes flying tackles at journalists who refer to an "All-American" instead of an "All-America" footballer. For 13 years Dean Hill has rummaged through old bookstores and trunks, clipped yellowed papers and magazines, assembled one of the world's finest collections of footballiana...
...newly born mice, with eyes still closed and nice and pink" might refer to two sets of three blind mice: Great Britain, France and the U. S. and Germany, Italy and Russia, who in Asiatic eyes are newly born countries, blind to realities staring them in the face where Japan is concerned...
...MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO I FEEL YOUR MAGAZINE HAS DONE AN INJUSTICE TO ONE OF THE OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPERMEN OF THE WEST, PAUL SMITH, EDITOR OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, IN YOUR JULY 29 ISSUE. YOU REFER TO HIM AS A "BUMPTIOUS YOUNG EDITOR." WE OF SAN FRANCISCO AGREE THAT HE IS YOUNG BUT DISAGREE THAT HE IS BUMPTIOUS...
...refer to the article called "Campaign" [account of the Republican National Convention] under National Affairs in TIME of July 8. It is a knockout. It is modern literature at its very exciting best. I wish that every man, woman and child in the U. S. would read it. It is more than fine reporting, or perhaps it is reporting as an art, a fine art. It is an American saga...
Secondly, I should like to refer to DEFENSE. So much is said about our national defense. This is extremely bad psychology. Emphasis should be placed, rather, on our readiness for offense. Can you show me an instance where defense has ever won anything? If there are not enough examples in current history of offenders being the winners, turn through the pages of all past history and find more than a few isolated examples of defenders ever winning a war. Defense begets inferiority. However virtuous it may be, it certainly does not work out in practical warfare. We should...