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Some of his men had surrendered, some had mutinied and crept into Sweden, but Bull Dietl was believed still alive at week's end. He fought on to keep for Germany, besides access to iron ore, an important source of strategic information. From observations made in the Narvik area, Nazi meteorologists make long-range forecasts of western Europe's weather, determined by south-flowing air masses over the Gulf Stream...
...young polio* got the fright of his life as he crept up on the dozing Prime Minister (believing him to be tweakable Doc Mclntire) prepared to tweak his stomach, caught himself just in time...
...talked-about U. S. composition in a decade. Said Koussevitzky: "This is the first truly great symphonic work to be written in America." Chicago critics, admiring its lean economy, lack of bombast and its forthright poetic atmosphere, wrote that "something of the crudeness and strength of pioneer America has crept into this new symphony,'' found it "as completely outside European experience as the prairie morning itself." To more cautious listeners it was not so much pure U. S. music as pure Harris...
Before they decided that the present arrangement would be practical, the Crimson Network technicians conducted many experiments to determine if reception would be clear throughout the University. For hours they crept shirtless through the superheated tunnels that lie under the Yard and the Houses. At short intervals they hooked up a receiver to the pipes to make sure that the waves being transmitted were not leaking away into the ground...
They crushed the Japanese feeler which crept out in May attempting to command the northern approaches to Chungking, with Hanchung (see map) as its ultimate objective. They did the same to a September drive for Changsha, key to Chungking's southern approaches. And they made a bloody, muddy fiasco of a Japanese "cleanup" campaign in supposedly occupied Shansi Province in the north...