Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stepped up their raids until they were almost continuous. The banging they gave the stout little island could no longer be explained as a show to establish a point of pride. The Axis was pocketing too many losses for that-in April a total of 137 aircraft, by British count. Malta went on taking it and fighting back, proudly showed a statue of Victoria, respectable, white and undamaged in the ragged mess of Valetta's disheveled ruins...
...Mussolini and Foreign Minister Count Ciano, it is said, arranged a little stunt to impress U.S. Ambassador William Phillips, who was about to return to Washington to report on Italian conditions. While the Duce was receiving the Ambassador, Count Ciano rushed in with a cooked-up piece of good news: "Duce! Duce! Twenty-eight ships loaded with wheat have just arrived . . . our granaries are simply bursting. Where can we put all this wheat...
...Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration today is a monument to 23 successful years' direction by Dean Wallace Brett Donham. It can count a faculty to match its impressive buildings, a business library second to none, an enrollment of over 1,000 U.S. businessmen-to-be. Most other business schools, including the famed London School of Economics, have patterned themselves on Dean Donham's model...
...Federal Council of Churches last week outlined in detail the civilian "Re-sponsibilities of Christian Citizens in War; time." They should "count it a privilege to share in such self-denials" as rationing entails, "accept ungrudgingly the greatly increased taxation," cut personal expenses hard "in order to invest the savings in Government bonds." They should "repudi-ate hoarding," and "give on a truly sacrificial level for the alleviation of the vast suffering arising from the war." The resolution was adopted by 60-odd members of the executive committee of the Council, representing its 24 constituent sects. It pointed out that...
That leaves only newly-elected Captain Bus Curwen, Johnny Richardson, and Scho Andrews on whom Bolles may count, and that means that next year Tom will have to build from the very bottom...