Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Germans retaliated. In their first effort to regain a lost point on Europe's fringe, they launched an air and seaborne assault against tiny Cos and its excellent airfield. The Allies admitted the loss of several strongpoints on the island to the German counterattack. Field Marshal von Weichs was evidently determined to hold the outer ring of Balkan defenses and exact a good price for any Allied landings on the mainland. Other ring positions recently secured by the Germans: strategic Corfu at the entrance to the Adriatic, Cephalonia farther south in the Ionian Sea, and Albania...
Reflecting the increased importance of mathematical ground-work, an effort has been made to enable students to fit the elementary classes in with other more limited work in concentration. Math Aa, 2a and 5b are added although previously enlisted, and new sections are provided is Math Ab and 2b. For more thorough preparation in certain fields, Dr. Kaplansky offers Math 6a, "Introduction to Higher Algebra" and the probability studies of Math 9b are shifted to winter...
...year ago these lines curving across the hemispheres would have looked like wishful thinking. About a year ago every Allied line of attack seemed to be a line drawn in sand, to be erased by the next Axis tide. Russia's effort to attack at Kharkov had been wiped out and the Nazi armies flowed around Stalingrad. Rommel had rolled the British back from Bengasi and was beating against the gates of El Alamein. On the other side of the world the U.S. fought frantically to keep a toe hold on a 90-mile-long island in the Pacific...
Uneasy Japan. Tojo's decrees were but the latest step in a long campaign of regimentation. The Emperor himself has become a whip with which the Army urges the worker to still greater effort, the soldier to still greater sacrifice...
...claims of a mildly wacky group of scientific playboys-the amateur stargazers and telescope-makers. Without them, U.S. ordnance men would have been hard up for gun sights. These amateurs, who turned from telescopes to making essential roof prisms* for sights, have been considered so important in the war effort that they worked under aliases. Last week they finally gave their right names...