Word: regularization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through scores of little German country towns. They are untouched by war. All the glass is in the. windows; the pansy beds are trim and fresh with purple and yellow blooms; the big beds of straw-covered beets are carefully protected against the weather in regular brown mounds...
George Patton, individual, can be engagingly attractive-urbane, almost courtly in manner, quiet in speech. Reputedly one of the Regular Army's wealthiest officers, he has a high social polish. He and his wife, Beatrice Ayer Patton, both have ample means, and in peacetime enjoy social life at their California ranch and handsome farm at Hamilton, Mass. In moments of ease Patton mixes a heady conversational cocktail of military erudition that might range from the 6th Century B.C. precepts of Sun Tzu to the tactics by which George Patton took the citadel at Metz...
...operation on the colonel, Dr. Frumkin got much the same results that can be achieved by regular hormone injections or by pellets of slow-dissolving hormones implanted under the skin (TIME, Oct. 3, 1938). Many U.S. doctors say that such a grafted gland will inevitably wither & die after, at most, four years...
...Land Sailor. Shipbuilder Ferguson runs his acres of ways and forests of derricks with the offhand manner of a country storekeeper. He keeps no regular office hours, usually refuses to sign papers, spends his time cruising about the yard. Says he, out of the side of his mouth: "My predecessors damn near wore themselves out signing their names...
Determined to be officers & gentlemen, Naval Reserve officer trainees at the University of California seemed inclined to pull their punches in regular boxing settos. So their instructors thought up a game that looked something like a Donnybrook Fair but was actually the offspring of two respectable sports: basketball and boxing...