Word: embarks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...radio eye at Bruneval, blamed for heavy casualties to British night sweeps over Europe, had been marked by the British for destruction. The parachutists overcame the astonished Germans in the station and blew it to ruins. Other Germans blocked their way to the beachhead where they were to embark and escape, but these Germans were taken in the rear by Army troops which had landed from light craft, backed up by the guns of Navy ships. The parachutists joined the troops on the beach, embarked under a shield of Navy shellfire, and the whole force moved triumphantly off under...
Launching what may become a nationwide college organization, the new Harvard Council on Post-War Problems will embark on its year's program tonight at 7:30 o'clock in Dunster House Large Common Room...
Fisher, who is 20 years old and hails from Winnetka, Illinois, left North Station last night with 116 other ambulance volunteers for an unidentified Canadian port, where he will embark for the trip around Africa. He expects to arrive at Cairo about Christmas time...
Assuming the event of a Hitler victory, Bruce C. Hopper, associate professor of Government, told his audience in the Eliot House Junior Common Room last evening that he believes the United States under a semi-totalitarian government, would immediately embark upon an immense training program to resist the advance of Hitler...
Williams, Hansen and Harris took the position that the cessation of United States armament outlays would constitute a severe shock to the economy after the European war was ended. The best way to mitigate the shock would be for the Government to embark on a program of directed, controlled deficit financing. During the armament boom, the national debt can be expected to rise, but this fact should not be permitted to interfere with rational methods of dealing with a possible post-war depression...