Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides supplying background music for the show, the orchestra, led by Emory L. Chaffee, Rumford Professor of Physics, will present a four part solo including the Dance of the Electrons, Harmonic Analysis, the Drag Loop Waltz, and the Pulse Promenade...
Other advantages of the remote-control system, developed by General Electric and Air Forces experts: turrets need be only large enough to house gun mounts, thus reducing the speed-killing drag which would be set up by turrets big enough to accommodate both guns and gunner; the job of aiming by hand in a rushing slipstream is taken over by powerful machinery ; the gunner can be warm and comfortable at his work inside the B-29's cabin, insulated from the shock and noise of his rattling armament...
...First Army's command team this week was the responsibility for answering the question: will the war in the West end this year or drag drearily into next spring? To romanticists the appropriate man to deliver the successful answer might seem the legendary general of the Jeb Stuart type. But there were no romantic trappings about make-certain Courtney Hodges. His only tradition was precise, professional proficiency. It suited soldiers...
...fight the final battle between the Oder and the Rhine, and to fight on as guerrillas after the last battle was lost. The Allies, east and west, needed to get into Germany as soon as possible, to upset these preparations before they became effective. Otherwise the war might drag on for dreary months of skirmishing and mopping up. After so much high drama, the Allied world had no stomach for a dreary epilogue...
Their bombs blew Tweed's house apart so that he had to drag his bed under a fragment of roof to keep out of the rain. He woke up in the night at the sound of firing but foggily decided that it was practice and went back to sleep. He did not realize that the Japs had landed until he heard their field guns firing. Then Tweed walked down to Government House to get the score and found that the Governor was going to surrender...