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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...technique for the selection of officer candidates is described in a monograph recently put out by the Grant Study, a Harvard social research group of seven men. The new method, to supplement others, will save almost an hour and a half per candidate, and some of the tests developed are already being widely used...
Even Post staffers, whose stories are boiled to the bone to save space, while Mrs. Meyer's run on & on, admit that her reporting is good. So do army officials, who hope that her exposé will get results and that she will write some more. She probably will...
...small shapes (like porous oil-filled bearings for automobile springs), plastic metals are now molded into thousands of parts, from tiny bearings (1/64th oz.) to big pieces (65 lb.). that replace castings on medium tanks. Powdered metals, molded to shape with heat and pressure, need little machining or finishing, save time as well as bronze, aluminum and other scarce metals...
...traversing this immense ideological area." Sheean once heard Churchill shock the Duke of Windsor by urging a British alliance with Russia. The "self-willed, pleasure-loving little Prince" said: "You of all people, Winston!" Winston replied: "Sir, I would make a friend of the devil himself, if it would save England...
Twenty minutes before, Lewis had ordered the miners back to work. By setting up a fifteen day limit for further negotiations perhaps he emphasized the impermanence, perhaps the save-faced-ness of his bridled patriotism. His performance, in either case, was not anti-climaxed but transcended by executive expression of a national aim. Without belittling the part of tiny strands and small threads, the President successfully emphasized the whole fabric of the nation...