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Word: wittedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME neglects to mention Rule 11 among necessary qualifications for nomination as Republican candidate for the Presidency. To wit: he must sit upon the fence on every vital question and express himself only in the vaguest generalities. With the exception of Mr. Willkie, no Republican candidate during the past 20 years has violated this rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 17, 1943 | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

Died. Gordon Hewart, 73, Viscount of Bury, Lord Chief Justice of England from 1922 to 1940; after long illness; in Totteridge, Herefordshire. A rolypoly little man with a high voice, a low opinion of bureaucracy, broad interests, considerable wit, he read Horace before breakfast, spoke in epigrams, was one of England's greatest liberals. A Lancashire draper's son and a newspaperman before he entered the law, he was King's Counsel, an M.P., a Cabinet Minister before becoming Lord Chief Justice. Kindly, diffident in private, he was sometimes blisteringly outspoken on the bench. "The only impartiality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 17, 1943 | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...take anything and make it into alone wave, but he is a man of wide experience with a fascinating history, if of it could be told. He has served as officer in the French Army in two world Wars. A man of great energy, been perception, and ready French wit, carries on his fight against the Axis his work here at Harvard...

Author: By Ensign Fitzpatrick, | Title: Electronics School | 4/30/1943 | See Source »

...Page One. How Gideon Planish gets as far as he does is a commentary on U.S. middle-class culture, but how Colonel Marduc managed to amass his pre-eminence only Lewis knows. In place of people, Lewis offers types, murderous research in the field of philanthropy, and a lambasting wit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fun With Fund-Raising | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...three miles an hour and closely followed by British infantry, ripped through the Germans' intricate barbed-wire defenses, slithered across their wide trenches. The surprised Germans bolted before the tanks' machine-gun fire. In ten hours 10,000 German soldiers surrendered. The Allied command lacked the wit or experience to make Cambrai a decisive victory, but the tank had made its effective debut. (A few tanks had been so misused at the Somme and in the Third Battle of Ypres that most military men ignored them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - EQUIPMENT: Decline of the Tank | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

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