Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lockheed P-38 (Lightning). A two-engine (liquid-cooled) pursuit plane, the P-38 has so far had only limited tests in action, notably in the Aleutians. Its performance has been brilliant. Turbo-supercharged, it has excellent high-altitude performance. At its best altitude it is one of the world's fastest fighting aircraft. Constant improvements are being made...
...give an aide a strenuous tour of duty just to get the flesh off him. Mounted on a white charger, Gort was a heroic figure as Commander in Chief of the British Army on the disastrous field of France. He shone as a systematic organizer rather than as a brilliant tactician. When he returned to England from the shambles of Dunkirk he was given the job of organizing England for the defense of her soil from the invasion that appeared about to engulf...
Also on the program are three Brahms intermezzi and Moussorgsky's famous "Pictures at an Exhibition." The first of these groups includes some of Brahms most difficult and brilliant work...
...list of morning callers includes the spare, incisive man who, beyond all others in the Army except Douglas MacArthur, has caught the public eye: Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, Chief of the Services of Supply. Among the men around the Chief of Staff, General Somervell bears a distinctive brand. Brilliant, dashing, he depends strongly upon picked subordinates of whom he requires the same luminous qualities. Quiet, monotonal George Marshall requires great competence, but he does not demand brilliance; he knows how to use the human tools at hand, considering it part of his duty to extract the utmost from merely...
Possessing a smooth passing attack, the New England League champs held scoreless in the first two quarters, while the Crimson legmen chalked up a point by a brilliant head shot by Jack Calhoun on a pass from Eli Berman. The Maroon came back in the third quarter to tie the score on a shot by Wilbur Eaton which careened off the cross bar into the goal...