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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 8, 1940 | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

...bestseller. Warner hands began to pat Warner shoulders. Warner minds began to be obsessed with the idea that they owned another Gone With the Wind. In its heyday Gone With the Wind had been known among other things as GWTW. Discreetly at first, Warner tongues began to refer to All This and Heaven Too as ATAHT. It was one letter longer. The psychological moment had come to turn the valuable property into a movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 24, 1940 | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

JUST REACHED P. 50 MAY 20 TIME. ALL WORLD INCLUDING NATIONAL PLASTICS AUTHORITY DR. G. KLINE. NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS. KNOWS THAT JOHN WESLEY HYATT FOUNDED PLASTICS INDUSTRY WHEN HE ESTABLISHED CELLULOID CORP.. COMPANY WHICH WAS FIRST TO PERFECT CELLULOSE ACETATE PLASTIC WHICH THEY CALLED LUMAR-ITH. REFER YOU TO DR. KLINE'S REVIEW OF PLASTICS IN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY, P. 198, MAY 1940, SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS JOURNAL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 17, 1940 | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

Most of the actions manifested by Mr. Russell are countenanced by neither the moral, nor legal code. Many are classified as the types of crime that decent people mention only in a whisper when it becomes necessary to refer to them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...value. First of all, they may not be accurate since they are questions which we believe many people may be prone to answer in jest. Secondly, these statistics are of temporary interest, and may not be regarded by members of our class as figures which they will care to refer to over the years in a class book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS ALBUM OMITS SUBJECT OF SEX IN SPITE OF INTIMATE QUESTIONS ON POLL | 5/10/1940 | See Source »

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