Word: blanke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smith's records do more than make military operations easier. "One of the biggest things we have to lick in soldiers serving overseas," he explains, "is homesickness. If a soldier knows the basic phrases of a language, he'll get a smile instead of a blank stare, and he'll begin to feel that he 'belongs...
Those who wish to serve in the mountain division should fill out the regular application blank to be acquired at the War Service Information Office at 12 Little Hall. Those already inducted into the regular army may also apply for transfer to the ski and mountain troops...
...isolationist, anti-Semitic propaganda that was then flooding the U.S. was more than mere coincidence. To Reporter Dillard Stokes, who has a nose sharpened by 19 years in U.S. newsrooms, has studied law and authored many a spare-time true detective story, Casey Jones gave a blank-check assignment: investigate and expose subversive activities -"take your time, be sure of your facts," then shoot the works...
Down the corridor the Admiral's orderly had just turned into his room. At the sound of the shots he whirled, rushed back to meet the assassin running toward him. At point-blank range the assassin fired twice again. The orderly fell, a bullet in his thigh. But others had arrived; the gunman was overpowered...
...system uses a blank globe and four drawing instruments to locate positions graphically. The navigator must "shoot the angle" of two stars with a sextant. He marks on his globe the exact substellar spots of these two stars (i.e., the spots where these stars are directly overhead-obtained from star tables). Then he uses these two spots as centers of circles, drawn with the angle measured by sextant. The two circles intersect at two widely distant points; one is the location of the plane. At high speeds and at mind-fogging altitudes the quickness of the method may be literally...