Word: write
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buck tradition, I Conant stop myself, and I trust I don't o-Fenn-d tradition by saying Watson my mind, I've wondered, Kennedy-ciple write as well as his teacher. There are two Sides to the question and I'm in Dyer need of an answer...
...least it's in my mind. Over a year ago we were signed up for the '52 Register and Red Book--the two costing $6. We received the Register shortly before Christmas last year. The Red Book, according to the blurb, is to contain our pictures, sports articles, and write-ups of our activities in our freshman year. The pictures are to be the same ones that were in the Register; all freshman activities have been over for some time, but no tentative date has even been set for the Red Book's release. Personally, I am not interested...
...their hair down to the last soiled lovelock, urbane Maugham has preferred to soak his colors in bleach and pin his hair in a tight bun. His Notebook (the whittlings-down of "fifteen stoutish volumes") contains mostly workaday jottings from 1892 (when he had just started to write) to 1949 (when he suggests that he is just about to stop). "I publish it," he explains, "because I am interested in the ... process of creation ... By some happy chance what interests me seems to interest a great many other people...
...since retired). Admitting that Sutherland was "smart," Kenney also says that "an unfortunate bit of arrogance, combined with his egotism, had made him almost universally disliked . . . Sutherland was inclined to overemphasize his smattering of knowledge of aviation." The showdown came during the very first week, when Sutherland tried to write the orders for Kenney's first big show. Writes Kenney: "I told him that I was running the Air Force because I was the most competent airman in the Pacific and that, if that statement was not true, I recommended that he find somebody that was more competent. . . When...
...books about the finish of the human race were laid end to end, authors might get the idea and stop writing them. Until then, readers can only hope that once in a while somebody will write a pretty good one, as bestselling Author George R. Stewart (Storm) has done...