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Matter and energy are manifestations of the same thing: matter is energy "frozen" into electric particles. These whirl in energy systems called atoms, which in turn form larger energy systems called molecules. These form dynamic energy systems called cells, which we refer to as "alive." Thus the difference between "dead...
Greatest preparation of all was centred around the building for making airplane engines. Over its steel framework contractors had first built a fibreboard shell, so that workmen, sheltered inside, could lay brick and pour concrete through winter weather. Last week the building, almost a fifth of a mile long, was...
Suddenly the column stopped; the 68th, safely past The Old Man, had turned into a wood. "Dismount!" Sergeant Pullen and his men took a quick snack of sandwiches and apples, remounted, ran peacefully back to Company D's tank park. In column-of-three, the tanks edged precisely into...
The sergeants' regime brought opulence and power to the Army, very little to the country. Education and other civic functions were placed under the supervision of the Army; the administration of lighthouses, fishing and customs went to the Navy. Many officers began to collect double and triple salaries for...
For on Luzon is not only the Philippines' capital, but their only Navy Yard (at Cavite), their only naval repair station (Olongapo), most of their fortifications and military airdromes. So long as Manila is in U. S. hands, no Japanese drive to the south could safely by-pass the...