Word: equiped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only exception in the drive to equip students for service in the armed forces will be in the case of participants in seasonal sports. Men on the football team will not be required to practice for the Harvard game by splitting rails, but as soon as the season is over they will come back...
This committee has classified the buildings around the Yard as Class A or Class B, and is making plans to equip the buildings selected as shelters. Although the Corporation has requested that no plans be made, or action taken, for protection against large high-explosive demolition bombs because of the slight likelihood of the use of any such missiles against this country, both the Class A and Class B buildings offer adequate safety from penetration by incendiary and small H.E. bombs...
...effort to help Britain. Last week she watched the appointment of Sir Archibald Percival Wavell as Allied Commander in Chief for the Pacific (see p. 17) with mixed thoughts. She may tolerate British command only if Britain and the U.S. spare her enough material fully to equip her home armies; or if Britain decides to appoint General Sir Thomas Albert Blarney or some other Australian officer to an important command...
Scrawled in blood across the tale of its death was the bitterly familiar tag line of Britain's World War II record: too little and too late. Only a few months ago had the British really begun to equip Hong Kong to meet a growing threat. They sent Canadian and British troops, new supplies and artillery. But when the Japanese struck, Hong Kong was still far from ready. Too many men were there to surrender without battle, too few to do more than add a brave and futile postscript to a colorful century of history...
...this was now only a beginning. Lieut. Colonel Frank J. McSherry, U.S. Director of Defense Training, told the teachers that to equip and supply one soldier in this war, 14 industrial workers are needed. Greatest need: in shipbuilding, aircraft, ordnance, welding, machine operators, radio and instrument assemblers...