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...proposed temporary Victory Arch for Manhattan's Times Square, to be erected when the boys come marching home. The scheme, sponsored by the Broadway Association, was described by its backers as "an arch fashioned to represent two huge palm leaves which are emblematic of Victory. . . . At the apex of the main motif will be placed the figures of Peace and Justice. The finger of Peace will point in the direction of Europe and Asia. Justice, displaying her broken sword, will be shown facing the Americas...
Concentration at the Apex. The magnificent harbor of Rabaul lies at the apex of a triangle, the base of which is held by the Allies. Rabaul is 480 miles from Port Moresby. It is 700 miles from Guadalcanal. It is the logical takeoff point for attack on either...
...managed to sideslip out of them each time. . . . The Flak was relatively light. I guess the Jerries must have been holding it for the poor fellows caught in the lights. We saw one Halifax caught in a cone of about 50 lights with the Jerries pumping streams into the apex until it exploded and slowly spiraled down...
...reputation increased, but of his many paintings, fame touched particularly his sweet, overblown Madonnas: The Madonna of the Chair, the Alba Madonna, the Sistine Madonna. The world agreed with Lübke, 19th-Century German art historian, that the Sistine Madonna "is, and will continue to be, the apex of all religious art." Queen Victoria thought Raphael "delightful" and refined. His Sistine Madonna became almost as familiar a Victorian figure as that of the reigning monarch...
...Japan is immeasurably more than an enemy in the Pacific; it is much more than the ally of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini." To make his point graphic, Kiralfy triangulates the eastern hemisphere. The apex he puts at Cape St. Vincent in Portugal; the base runs from Singapore to Bering Strait (see cut}. "The Japanese islands are," he says, "and for all time must remain geographically in strategic domination of the vital base line of the Eurasian Triangle." "It is imperative," he insists, "that this Eurasian Triangle be seen for what it really is-a bomb of sufficient power...