Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secret of Gamelin's military success lay largely in his old mapmaker's and landscapist's instinct for geography. Not only was he able to take the maximum advantage of terrain so as to conserve manpower, but his shrewd disposition of fire power constantly enhanced the offensive quality of his command. His many citations praised his "highest qualities of method and of inspection" and his ability to carry his objectives "in the course of a general offensive at the cost of minimum losses." The French soldier did not like him less for that and the present French...
Even the few anecdotes about this thoroughly professional little man take on some of their subject's small, neat dignity. Last year, visiting a Chasseurs' encampment on a mountain plateau, he shook hands with familiar oldtimers and then was taken to the picket line to see some of the St. Bernards who do the outfit's liaison work. Gravely the General kneeled down and shook hands with the best of them...
...country, unemployment was rapidly disappearing, for capital and labor flowed into war industries. Immigration dwindled, but U. S. cotton exports to continental Europe dropped from 4,600,000 bales a year to 1,400,000. In 1915 and 1916 thousands of Negroes quit the fields of the South to take jobs in New York City, Chicago, Detroit-and there were jobs for them in the booming war industries...
...them by the high cost of living. Everywhere war produces a shortage of the goods that make for real prosperity in peace. For war is the opposite of free trade. A world war shuts off trade, like shutting the gate of a dam, at one clap, and it may take years for a mutually profitable exchange of goods and services to reestablish itself...
...find the fraternal devotion of the Gestes rather mawkish, Actor Gary Cooper something short of the Beau ideal. Although the desert suspense of the film's opening at desolate Fort Zinderneuf and the starkness of the dead men propped up in the embrasures (both copied take for take from the 1926 picture) are still slick, and Actor Brian Donlevy outvillains his predecessor Noah Beery, Beau Geste illustrates the truth that, in recapturing some of the virtues of their original, remakes usually develop vices all their...