Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comes off the V-Mail printing machines! page" to that size the type would be only a third as big as this-so small that even a Navy man with 20/20 eyesight would have trouble reading it. Consequently we have to cut up proofs of all our columns of type and pictures and maps and paste them together again in two-column pages instead of three. Each page of the V-Mail Edition contains about half as many words as a regular TIME page, so each copy runs between 60 and 70 pages of thick photographic paper printed...
Outside the refinery the dead peopled the fields in attitudes of grotesque helplessness. The wounded lay amid the still burning wreckage of smashed German motor columns; they were so many that there was no way to evacuate them. On the roads the prisoners marched eight abreast in a column a mile long and a Belgian woman danced up & down with her finger across her throat screeching "Kaput Hitler...
That was all, except that the troop, promised a rest, got exactly half an hour of "rest," after they went into a rear area the next morning. When I last saw them, the column was on the road again, forming up for a counterattack in our valley...
Encirclement and . . . Nowhere else in the Asiatic or Pacific theaters had the Japs such a large force active in the field against any of the United Nations. The Japs' strategy was sound and tried: encirclement and annihilation. Due west from Hengyang, one column struck swiftly toward Shaoyang; southeast of Hengyang, another struck from captured Leiyang to engulf Changning...
...enemy's intentions were clear and frightening: the second column swung west to Chiyang-in the rear of the Chinese troops which had been massed to check the drive. With almost no motor transport, the Chinese lacked the mobility of the Japs. It was doubtful that they could prevent a junction between the enemy's Shaoyang and Chiyang columns...