Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DELOS V. SMITH...
...Reader Smith will be disappointed: 1) the 72-hour press run of the Oppenheimer cover was completed long before the first vote was cast; 2) there wasn't a single stick of scrapped type in the shop (the four-page election section was written, edited and printed the day after the election, as planned...
...Chicago, Correspondent Serrell Hillman got in touch with schoolmaster Herbert Winslow Smith, who had taught Robert at the Ethical Culture School in Manhattan. At 15, he said, it was immediately obvious that this thin, gangling boy was a genius and, in fact, "his mind is so tremendous that it makes you really uneasy...
...guards," Barclay reported yesterday, "we would choose from Walt McCurdy, Cliff Crosby, and Dick Covey, last year's Jayvee captain. And up front, the starters would come from Bill Prior, Johnny Rockwell Jim Gabler, or Ed Smith...
...Lack of Spirit." To prove its point, the Army unlocked long-secret files. But some of the Army's own testimony went far to corroborate Howlin' Mad. After relieving Smith, General Jarman reported simply: "The problem . . . was to get the 27th to advance." In an official memo on the conduct of the 27th, Jarman explained: "I have noted ... a lack of offensive spirit ... A battalion will run into one machine gun and be held up for several hours." Other Army officers reported "fainthearted" attacks, noted "a lack of spirit in moving forward...