Word: actually
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Order of the Bath was established by Henry IV at his coronation in 1399, was later forgotten, was revived by George I in 1725. It is doubtful whether the ceremony had any connection with the actual ablutions of the monarch...
Form of Worship. "This must be so directed and conducted that its relevance to life and to men's actual needs is evident...
...Belle's mission takes its crew among prodigious scenes which have seldom been so well recorded. Even the take-off into the mild sunlight has grandeur. As the swift ground shrivels into easy, floating legibility, cinemaddicts feel that sudden magical suction in the midriff which the actual experience brings. Climax of this effect: a magnificent close-up of the landing gear as it retracts, flattening like the feet of a bird in flight, and disclosing the countryside. Technicolor comes fully into its own when the Belle and the planes of her formation climb steadily over the North Sea, striating...
Where the ratios are largely based on actual air combat, they may also be deceptively encouraging. In Western Europe, for example, a large proportion of the U.S. losses were heavy bombers, each lost plane representing two to eight times as much plane and five to ten times as many men as the typical German fighter which made up the bulk of the enemy's losses. Concealed in the ratios is the significant fact that 1,579 enemy planes were destroyed on the ground, as against 76 U.S. planes-strong evidence of how firmly the A.A.F. held the initiative last...
Despite charges of immoral behavior among U.S. soldiers in New Caledonia made by one French official (TIME, Jan. 3), observers have seen little actual evidence of it. Army officials, anxious to avoid any incident with the island's French, moved fast in the case of the Negroes. One soldier was never identified. But the other two, Edward R. Loury and Frank Fisher Jr., were quickly court-martialed and sent to prison for life...