Word: channell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tricky passages of the Yangtze. Through the war, he was one of the Royal Canadian Navy's ace navigators. On Atlantic convoy duty, said he, "the Admiral thought nothing of going to sleep while I took the squadron through the Smalls" (reefs at the entrance to Bristol Channel). With Littler as navigator, Canada's first cruiser, the Uganda, steamed 80,000 miles and never missed a rendezvous. Littler gave radar much of the credit, called it the most valuable...
...Secretary of War from the pre-Pearl Harbor Lend-Lease campaign until after V-J day, Elder Statesman Henry L. Stimson never wavered in two firm convictions. One was that ultimate victory could be assured only by a cross-Channel invasion of Europe. The other was that the sooner the invasion came the better. In the first excerpts from his wartime autobiography, published in the January issue of the Ladies' Home Journal,* 80-year-old Henry Stimson this week gave his account of the battle he fought for adoption of his strategy...
...Lingering Predilection." From the outset, Stimson's major opponents were the two sometimes brilliant, always compelling men who ran the war from Washington and London. Though both Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had early accepted the War Department's Operation BOLERO (a 50-division cross-Channel assault by the summer of 1943), "neither of the two had been fully and finally persuaded...
...movies and heard her records, knew something of what to expect. In the midst of France's troubles last week, well-dressed Parisians packed the smart, red-walled Club des Champs Elysées, to see Lena Horne's Continental debut. Word had drifted across the channel of Lena's smashing success in London-and by midnight the atmosphere was electric...
...Freshman year, each undergraduate arms himself with a copy of the course catalogue and, with aid of an adviser, plane the remainder of his college career. Before him lies a vast range of 400 courses and thirty-one distinct fields of concentration. Into one of these a student must channel a large part of his academic efforts. After four years of study he will emerge a product of Harvard education, a product that is intended to leave college with the basic tools for success in a specialist society and also to retain a broad base of general knowledge. This...