Word: detachedness
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Man from Moscow. When Ghormley became a maker of battles, even his old classmates found that they really knew little of their friend. They could describe his thin grey hair, his stern mouth, his droop-lidded eyes. They could discourse on his geniality when he relaxed over a drink, on...
In his six senatorial years, handsome Henry Lodge voted to limit the use of U.S. forces to the Western Hemisphere, to restrict transfer of naval craft, to make a two-billion loan instead of Lend-Lease. Then he voted for Lend-Lease, then to retain the neutrality act, then to...
Other basic faults in organization-well-known to many & many a Briton-hamper the British Army. One of the gravest is in Britain's armored divisions, whose auxiliary units of infantry and artillery are merely "attached" to the main forces and may be detached at any time. In the...
Who the commander was in the Battle of the Coral Sea the Navy was not yet ready to announce. Probable it was that Vice Admiral Herbert Fairfax Leary, recently detached from Nimitz' command and placed under MacArthur in Australia, was in on the show. It was equally probable that...
Wealthy Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney decided to tear down the Harry Payne Whitney house-one of the last great mansions left on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue. Her husband willed it to her at his death in 1930 but she rarely lived there. A limestone and marble pile with...