Word: dual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...camp served a dual purpose in the military life of Harvard's future Field Artillery officers. First it taught them how to fire guns, how to hit a target with a 75 shell, how to camoflage a truck, and 101 other little tricks of How to Make People Sore and Influence Enemies...
First to solo (in the creditable time of six hours' dual instruction) was Captain Davis. A new class of eleven is already at the field doing its preliminary soldiering, and other classes will follow every five weeks...
...Baking Co., which was sponsoring the Lone Ranger out of Detroit, wanted to hit the New York and Chicago markets, with no stops at aerial way stations. Neither NBC nor CBS could render the spot coverage. But WOR, then of Newark, and WGN of Chicago agreed to provide a dual hookup. The Gordon method of radio advertising appealed to many another sponsor...
Stevenson's story of the dual nature of man and the tendency of evil to triumph over good was no instant gift of a dream. It began in his childhood home in Edinburgh. There were a bookcase and a chest of drawers in his room made by a notorious split personality called Deacon Brodie-a respectable cabinetmaker by day who used his nights for thievery. The author never forgot the stories his nurse made up for him around the Deacon's furniture. These, together with a Frenchman's treatise on the subconscious, which he read years later...
Planned for months, the Support Commands clearly showed Air Forces' recognition of its dual function: 1) operation as a separate striking force; 2) operation with the land forces as aerial cavalry (reconnaissance), infantry (machine-gun attack) and artillery (bombing...