Word: atlas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Richard Edes Harrison's Look at the World- Alfred A. Knopf ($3.50); OWI's A War Atlas for Americans-Simon & Schuster ($2.50); Fairfield Osborn's The Pacific World-W. W. Norton & Co. ($3); David Greenhood's Down to Earth- Holiday House ($4); Erwin Raisz's Atlas of Global Geography-Harper & Bros. ($3.50); Nicholas Spykman's The Geography of the Peace -Harcourt, Brace & Co. ($2.75); Irving Fisher & 0. M. Miller's World Maps and Globes- Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
Weight-lifting contests usually involve lifting a bar bell overhead by three methods: the two-hand snatch, the two-hand clean and jerk, the two-hand military press.* Atlas' share of this year's honors went to York's Emerick Ishikawa, a 23-year-old Japanese-American in the 123-lb. class. At the A.A.U. championships in Chattanooga, Tenn. he added 19¼ Ib. to the snatch record by lifting 193 Ib. He cleaned and jerked a record...
...were high [over Morocco's Atlas Mountains], . . . Down there lived sheep men-obscure mountain men who had never heard of a nebelwerfer or a bazooka. Men at home at the end of the day in the poor, narrow, beautiful security of their own walls...
Rumor said that he would go to London to write his memoirs: the story of a Frenchman who had fought from the Atlas to the Vosges, seen the inside of German prisons in two wars, dreamed once of leading la patrie's liberation...
Bumpy reached North Africa last Christmas, spent two months in the Atlas Mountains, distributing food and clothing to the Berbers...