Word: chocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep ahead of the news Chapin and his associates have built up a "bank" chock full of maps they have drawn to illustrate events that might erupt into the headlines-maps they could fill in and finish at a few minutes' notice. For example, three years ago they prepared a basic map of the invasion of Britain, which needs only the direction arrows and the names of the beachhead battlefields to be ready for the plate-maker. I hope (pretty confidently) that we shall never have a chance to use this...
...women are concerned there are two types--Genus Coed and Phylum Bostoniensis. Boston and New England are chock full of women's colleges. While trends of thought in recent years have been along the line that most of these homes of happy hunting were accessible only by way of the automobile, delving and dredging since the recent rationing program have revealed that the railroad companies have laid branch lines from South Station even to Northampton, Norton, and South Hadley...
...exhibit of Eskimo culture, which illustrates the newly - conceived, "Museum" technique of exhibiting only a few objects in a case at one time. The theory behind this is that one well placed bow and arrow or a single sled will teach more to the average observer than a case chock full of implements from which he will probably turn away in complete boredom. On the fifth floor, there is a collection of Arctic mummies donated the Museum by no less and earthy organization than the American Meatpackers' Institute. The story behind this gift is a curious one: a few years...
Captains of the Clouds (Warner) is virtually a documentary of Canada's large part in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. And it is a very pretty picture as long as it sticks to its subject. Chock-full of Royal Canadian Air Force men, bulging with the atmosphere and habiliments of their training, it also has more than its share of the lushest Techni-colored flying shots yet made...
...Army drives tanks and armored vehicles into the enemy mass. Kessel means kettle: infantry units encircle the cut mass, drive it into a kettle-shaped trap. Last week on the Ukraine front the Germans put the heat under the biggest pot o' Russians ever, and had the chock nearly set for a new drive into the apparently endless Red mass beyond...