Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶By Vice Admiral John S. McCain: the number of U.S. aircraft carriers (now over 40) will be "approximately doubled" in the next few months. By Under Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal: the U.S. will build twice as many cruisers this year as last, but major emphasis will be...
Like their pious forebears in Germany and Russia, they are hard-working and puritanical (cards and dancing are frowned on). But they long ago flagged and climbed aboard the U.S. train. Their German religion has given way to Congregationalism. Few of the young generation can speak a German word. Whenever...
All this places increased emphasis upon the meeting between Adams and the sea-Elephants today. Game time is scheduled for 4:15 o'clock.
But at the present time the principal emphasis, the overwhelming emphasis, should be on winning the war. In other words, we are now suffering from that bad accident, not from an internal illness.
When the subject of baseball was brought up, the Ambassador said that he hoped the Harvard team would make another trip to his country. He added that "at our best institution, Tokyo Imperial, we do not have much emphasis on athletics."