Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commanders were green. Their teamwork was bad. The Red Air Force (then being re-equipped with new models) was weak, tank tactics faulty. In the bitter days of retreat, Voronov found himself woefully short of the weapon his foe had aplenty-trench mortars. But his heavier guns fought with skill and stubborn valor: of the few thousand German tanks disabled in the first months of war, Voronov's guns wrecked every third...
...been "driven to the brink of disaster." But "never in history has the enemy himself jumped over the precipice. To win a war it is necessary to bring the opponent to the brink . . . and shove him over. . . . For this it is necessary to continue perfecting the military skill of the men and commanders ... to study enemy tactics constantly and to counter his tactics with more perfect tactics...
...Wehrmacht fought for Pskov with skill and fury: beyond it lay Estonia and Latvia, and then the Baltic, washing Germany's own shores. But not even Pskov's fate worried the Germans as much as the Russian threat to the Vitebsk-Rogachev line, and to Minsk, the kingpin of the German defense system in the north...
...portals of the building at 14 Plympton Street will be swung wide for all men, civilian or V-12, who want to learn a little journalism, acquire business experience, or develop some photographic skill...
...improvements represented a high degree of skill . . . but not invention. Patents . . . are not intended as a reward for a highly skilled scientist who completes the final step in a technique. They are not intended as a reward for the collective achievement of a corporate research organization. To give patents for such routine experimentation ... is to use the patent law ... to create monopolies for corporate organizers instead of men of inventive genius. We are bound to interpret the patent law ... to reward individual and not group achievement...