Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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House basketball will swing back into action next term immediately after compulsory athletics begin, it was announced recently by Adolph W. Samborski, Acting Assistant Director of Physical Education...
...Long Second Half. Midway it may have been, in one sense, but it was less than midway in point of time or distance. The real march to Tokyo could not begin from Midway: it had to start from Guadalcanal, and disaster nearly overtook it. Nimitz hated to relieve Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley, who had burned himself out in the South Pacific, allowing himself neither exercise nor relaxation, trying to run an offensive on a shoestring (and four months ahead of schedule). But at last Nimitz sent Halsey south to take over...
Unlike the women in contemporary war fiction, Jane faces V-day without trepidation. Said she: "Adjustments to make? Certainly. John and I are leading different lives now than we did when we were together. But if there was anything basically there to begin with, it won't be so hard to take up normal living again...
...question of who would run the Pacific War from now on was opened wide last week. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, midway in the task of liberating the Philippines, had not even waited for the mopping-up to begin before he made a bold bid for fresh fields to conquer: "Our motto becomes 'On to Tokyo.' We are ready in this veteran and proven command when called upon...
...large standing army. After this war, the U.S. is virtually certain to have such an army for the first time in its history. With the possibility by no means remote that a military hero may be elected President in 1948, it is none too soon for patriots to begin reconsidering this danger. An examination of the nine generals who have occupied the White House is inconclusive but reassuring...