Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...significant that the righteous [in Argentina] use the same word to describe a loose woman and a revolutionary political thinker-"liberal...
Simple Row. Chennault, worker of tactical and strategic miracles with no more than a faint start of an air force, is an airman, through & through. Probably the Air Forces' most original thinker, he has chosen the unorthodox ways of soldiering and fighting that airmen love, and they have worked. In the last five months Chennault's pilots have destroyed 300-400 planes with a loss of eight pilots, fewer than 20 planes. China's debt to him and his American Volunteer Group is that, with the help of China's army, they saved Chungking, later saved...
...late great William Butler Yeats was a poet of genius, a man of parts (of which few sold at popular prices), a deep-sea diver in the lugubrious pearl-gulfs of the occult, a political thinker to set men's teeth on edge...
...ubiquitous swamp cattails. Just before they burst into full-blown feather, the brown seed clumps can be milled into lightweight, water-resistant fluff suitable for stuffing and padding-and expected to work satisfactorily in life jackets. The discovery of this homely substitute is credited to Dr. Charles Frederick Burgess, thinker-tinker president of Burgess Battery Co., 1942 winner of the Acheson Medal, electrochemistry's highest award...
...Against Germany, U.S. broadcasters have begun to take studious aim. CBS, for example, which now beams seven 15-minute periods seven days a week to Germany, has a special staff of European and German experts assembled by Dorothy Thompson-a military analyst, a Protestant thinker, an authority on German-Far Eastern Affairs, a Catholic theologian- address themselves to definite groups with in the Reich. Miss Thompson gives a weekly talk for her old anti-Nazi friends in Germany. The effectiveness of this work is attested by the fact that at least two broadcasts by Miss Thompson got a rise...