Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allies also wage their campaign on the seas. Brightest reports...
...time the hot, soggy breath of Christmas Day began to blow across the dank jungles of Guadalcanal, the Marines were writing the last lines to the brightest page in their Corps' history. This time the "scuttlebutt" was true: they were going to be relieved. Last week the War Department finally announced that the job had been completed. Guadalcanal's fighting force (except for airmen still provided by the Navy) was now made up of Army troops...
...hope of early victory stirred the Allied world last week. Discussed, if not wholly shared, in high Allied councils was the brightest hope of all: that Germany could be defeated in 1943, that Japan could be crushed...
...with 171, has admitted losing 22, including 13 in the Solomons, but has launched several times that many. Example: the Bath Iron Works alone turns out one destroyer every two weeks. Despite some fumblings, delays in machinery deliveries and other scandals, the destroyer program is one of the brightest spots in the Navy shipbuilding program...
...nova was discovered by Professor B. H. Dawson of the La Plata Observatory in Argentina. A week after its discovery it was already the eighth brightest star in the sky, its brightness increasing day by day. In the U.S. the nova is visible at 5:30 to 6 a.m., war time, almost on the meridian and some 15° above the southern horizon when viewed from the latitude of Manhattan, Denver or Tokyo. It is higher in the southern States, invisible in Canada except for southern Ontario...