Word: skirmisher
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When our OBs went to war we began recruiting OGs. In that interval our office girls established themselves and their own traditions. Like U.S. military school plebes sent to fetch "the cannon reports" or "a yard of skirmish line," new OGs now have to find out the hard way that there is no such thing as "striped ink," a "paper stretcher," or the 13th floor...
Physicists will never be happy until they take the atom completely apart. Most of them already consider the atom bomb just a frontier skirmish. Last week they gathered at the University of California to discuss the big topic in nuclear physics: subatomic particles. To the American Physical Society, U.S. atom-busters described carefully laid plans for further busting...
...krona from 23.82 U.S. cents to 27.77 cents, a 14% increase. Both nations were guessing that the U.S. would have 10 to 14% more inflation than it now has. There were reports that Argentina, and several other nations, would soon revalue their currencies also. In short, a first skirmish of a new currency war, such as had killed off world trade in the early '30s, had taken place...
...last week nervously witnessed the first post-OPA skirmish between supply & demand. It started briskly. The New York Journal of Commerce commodity index rose 8.9 points to a new high of 129.1. But there was relatively little scrambling for merchandise by retailers, consumers and wholesalers. The market seemed not so much free as bewildered. In general, businessmen waited to see whether OPA was really dead (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Stars and Stripes. The censorship was called off, Major Kestler would stay. Colonel Clark promised that the newspaper would operate "in consonance with the highest standards of American journalism and the Army. . . ." Whether their war with the brass was over or not, staffers figured they had won a skirmish...