Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...larger sea & air action. By heavily escorted convoys from Gibraltar and Alexandria, the British tried to get supplies into battered Malta and to the retreating Eighth Army at Tobruk (see p. 20). Italo-German warships, planes, submarines and torpedo boats grabbed their chance, tried to knock out the bulk of Britain's remaining Mediterranean Fleet. Thanks partly to Colonel Halverson's roving bombers, the Axis failed in its main objective. But the British lost heavily, were able to claim only a limited success in getting the convoy through...
With only 920 names officially recorded on the cards in the manila envelopes, the bulk of what is undoubtedly the largest summer enrollment in Harvard's 300-odd years of history will enter Memorial Hall today and Monday...
...main bulk of the registrees appeared about 11 o'clock, and by nightfall, when the doors were closed, only six or seven men were left filling out the many blanks and cards, and they were hustled along by various attendants. Included for the first time was an official application blank for the army ROTC course, accompanied by an explanatory memorandum from their headquarters in Wadsworth House, once General George Washington's base of operations. Also among the assorted pamphlets and information folders was a booklet addressed to "new students" on "Suggestions for Effective Study" produced by the Bureau of Supervisors...
...measure also sets up a system of financial assistance to dependents of army and navy men in the four lowest ranks, with the government contributing the bulk of the monthly allowance check and the service man the Ballance...
...still at Hitler that the bulk of Allied air power was aimed. Europe was still the place for a second frontקf there must be a second front. And Russia was still the place where the war could be lost this year...