Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first won military distinction by applying his science on the battlefield. At McGill University, after boyhood on the Saskatchewan frontier, he studied for a commission in Canada's small peacetime army while he also distinguished himself as a student of electricity. In 1914 he was a major in a battery of field artillery; he left his job in a McGill laboratory to go to France. In 1918 he was a brigadier general, commanding the Canadian Corps' heavy artillery...
...Women," exploded English Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham after finding three of them facing him from the ranks of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra "are like the vultures on the battlefield: they appear after everyone else is dead. I believe women should do their worst. They always have done their worst. They ought to go on doing worse than ever. The sooner they're allowed to run their course, the sooner the present era will blow up in ineptitude, inefficiency and incompetence. There will be five years of no music, and at the end people will...
...This time the Allies have only about 25,000,000 tons afloat, but the world is their battlefield. Vast stores of fuel oil, rubber and other riches once available are in the hands of the enemy. So are the resources and shipping of Scandinavia, and, for practical purposes, of Spain" [TIME, June...
...Sisters (Warner) are a very unhappy trio of prospective million-heiresses: Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Nancy Coleman. Their mother went down with the Lusitania. Their father died on a World War I battlefield. They have passed the best part of 23 years in court trying to get a clear title to the half-billion dollars fate and father left them. The Gay Sisters chronicles this courtroom crisis straight through to the final gavel...
...Heroic battlefield surgery during the Japanese invasion of Burma (TIME, April 13, 20; July 20) earned Burma-born Major Gordon S. Seagrave, onetime medical missionary with the American Baptist Mission, the Order of the Purple Heart (originated by George Washington...