Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow's account, the Russians, up to June 22, had lost 4,200,000 men (against 6,400,000 Axis casualties). Most foreign observers believe that the actual Russian losses have been at least twice the announced total. Certainly the losses of men and weapons have been huge-so huge that the Red Army of 1943 is literally a new army...
...WAVES-WIVES dance postponed to next Friday, July 9, 1600-1800 cannot include mixed swim on account of, well administrative reasons. But we are looking forward to a big turnout of everybody and his brather for the dance. Whites or khakis, what's the vote...
...Tennessee maneuvers last week a full U.S. airborne division was used in a tactical operation with larger units. Paratroops and glider-borne infantry carried out the attack. Riding with the glidermen was TIME Correspondent John H. Walker, who wrote this account...
...your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions. . . ." He prays: "O God, great and omnipotent judge of the living and the dead, before whom we all are to appear after this short life to render an account of our works, lift our hearts, we pray Thee." Then he murmurs "I am the resurrection and the life," etc., followed by the plea for mercy...
...Manila news paperman investigating Japanese fortifications he found himself blocked and thwarted by Japanese agents in the Philippines. The principal one: his barber. My War With Japan is intermingled newspaper reminiscences and history of such Oriental affairs as the Japanese drug trade, together with a blow-by-blow account of how the Japanese tried to jam Alcott's anti-Japanese broadcasts from station XMHA in Shanghai. He was shot at and bombed; efforts were made to kidnap him and break his arms. One value of the story: recalling the days after 1937 in Shanghai, when the Japanese were abducting...