You spent World War II in Greenland working on something so top secret that even I couldn't find out about it.

7 seconds sound clip from the Desk Set (1957) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:36:49 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- How'd you happen to ask that question?

- Oh, I did a little research on you.

- You were born in Columbus, Ohio on May 22. That makes you a Gemini.

- You're a graduate of M.I.T. with a PhD in Science.

- You're a Phi Beta Kappa, although you don't wear your key, which means either that you're modest or that you lost it.

- You spent World War II in Greenland working on something so top secret that even I couldn't find out about it.

- You're one of the leading exponents of the electronic brain in this country and the inventor of an electronic brain machine called EMMARAC, the Electromagnetic Memory and Research Arithmetical Calculator.

- That's all I found out so far, but I only had half an hour.

- A very rare tropical fish.

- Thank you. (8)

[...]

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