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...Only Voice. "Freedom, it seems to me. lies not so much in objectivity, which is largely beyond human realization, as in variety . . . Those who appear regularly [on] BBC . . . must be prepared to blow their trumpets or sound their cymbals or scratch their violins in accordance with the Corporation's baton . . . Whether the music is good or bad, there is one orchestra with one conductor, following one score, and this state of affairs ... is both unhealthy and dangerous...
While helping man a machine gun on Guadalcanal in January 1943, he got his first wound: two slivers of Japanese shrapnel ripped into his back and lodged in his left lung. Considering that a "scratch," he stayed up front with his platoon; but malaria finally laid him low. In the spring of 1945 he was back in action. He was wounded in the arm and leg by grenade fragments, in the face and in the hip by shrapnel, then in the face again by a sniper's bullet...
...through the '30s and '40s, and made some 500 sets for their friends and the odd purchaser, but they never put it on the market. In 1948 a social worker named James Brunot took it over and invented the name "Scrabble" (dictionary meaning: "to scrape, paw or scratch with the hands or feet"). He and his wife started making the games themselves in a small workshop at Newtown, Conn. Six months ago, unable to keep up with the burgeoning demand, they licensed a game-manufacturing company, Selchow & Righter, to bring out Scrabble sets on a mass-production basis...
...Oculus," chirped the class. "Quid est?" continued the professor. "Pes," answered the class. Actually, the students knew all about pes and oculus already: they were Latin teachers of many years' standing. But last week at the University of Michigan, they did not mind starting from scratch, learning the latest teaching methods of a linguistics expert named Waldo Sweet...
Kaiser Motors, said Henry, had started from scratch on the C-119's, had to learn all about the new job and write off its enormous tooling costs against only 159 planes. The cost of producing the first C-119's was high, as is usual in mass production, but with production increasing, mistakes corrected and short cuts discovered, the cost curve would fall rapidly...