Word: circular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department recently put out a circular awarding the Combat Infantryman Badge to all (frontline) infantry units for exemplary action in combat. Officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the Medical Department and Corps of Chaplains were not considered eligible for the award...
...never slackened in fury. By Thursday night the Resistance forces held not only the islands of Saint-Louis and La Cite, but the Hotel de Ville, the Palais de Justice, the mairies of all arrondissements and the suburbs of Boulogne, Issy and Chatillon. The Germans held a large circular area bounded by the Eiffel Tower, the Invalides, the Gare du Quai-d'Orsay, the Place de la Concorde, the Madeleine and the Grand Palais. They also had strong points at the Gare d'Austerlitz, the Gare du Nord and the Porte d'Orleans. What was holding...
...thatch-roofed Officers Club was named "Top of the Mark." On atolls and in jungles, dusty tents and tubular Quonset huts bore the same name. The original is in San Francisco, an elegant saloon atop the city-topping Mark Hopkins Hotel. When fog winnows against the great windowpanes, the circular bar and soft lounges seem out of this world. For soldiers and sailors, its atmosphere is just right for the gaiety of homecoming, the murmuring of farewell...
This pattern, arrived at on Tarawa, improved on Kwajalein, was last week perfected on Eniwetok, a roughly circular atoll 379 miles northwest of Kwajalein. Through Eniwetok the Japs had been staging their airplane supply to the Marshalls...
Hunting a distant target with sunbeams reflected from an ordinary mirror is a good deal like trying to pin the tail on the donkey. This glass has a full mirror on its face, a smaller circular mirror on its back, and a sighting cross (A) in the center. To aim it, the signaler faces the mirror toward a point about halfway between the target (the plane) and the sun, and sights the target through the cross. The sun, shining through the sight, makes a cross-shaped spot of light (B) on the signaler's hand. When the mirror...