Word: shoulders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After receiving from Dictator Hitler a shoulder-shrugging reply to his first appeal for negotiations to continue, the President caused the 54 head U. S. diplomats accredited to a foreign country-except the ones through whom copies of the first Roosevelt-to-Hitler appeal had been relayed-to communicate at once to all the various chiefs of state Mr. Roosevelt's belief that an appeal by each of them to Herr Hitler might have cumulative effect...
...yearling, on my shoulder...
...many walls which encircle his new penthouse cubicle. Before him the desk, the calendar, the typewriter. Well enough; they had been so in the past. And there was the Falstaffian old leather Morris chair with its spinster companion, the ever slightly drunken bridge lamp, leaning confidentially over its shoulder--looking the same as ever. But will the old combination still breed the same pleasant spawn of thoughts, the Vagabond wondered? Could they still whisper the same mental innuendoes of Donne when he thought of English 30, or of Dewing when he thought of Ec. 61? Last year they...
Main objective of the U. S. Maritime Commission in its task of reviving the U. S. merchant marine is the construction of at least 500 new ships in the next ten years. To man these ships, the commission wants well-trained men. In his straight-from-the-shoulder critique of U. S. shipping last year, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, then commission chairman, recommended Government-run training schools for seamen as one sure way of insuring a skilled personnel. At this suggestion the warring factions of U. S. marine labor stopped making faces at one another long enough to make a unanimous...
...single unit soon will be on test; Major George W. Goddard, whose color cameras capable of making pictures at 15,000 ft. altitude and 200 m.p.h. are revolutionizing air reconnaissance. In the army arsenal at Springfield, Mass., is Consulting Engineer John C. Garand, whose semiautomatic, 30-round-per-minute shoulder rifle will, by its increased firepower, vastly affect infantry practice (and increase the hazards of the U. S. and all armies). On paper in the War Department, and partially worked out in the field, is a new infantry division, halved from the present strength of 22,000 into a more...