Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking for the entire Junior Officers Class, we wish to extend a sincere welcome to the newly entered Midshipman class. We all know and appreciate the feelings which must be running through your confused and befuddled minds. We were in your boots once--we know your worries...
...clause was intended to keep Canada's Japanese from voting, had the support of color-touchy members from British Columbia. There Japanese have long been barred from the polls. The effect of the new bill was to extend the British Columbia ban to all of Canada. Any legislature could as easily bar Canadians of German or Italian extraction from voting...
...Portraits and Death. The Saddle & Sirloin Club was founded in 1901, to extend recognition to men who had made outstanding contributions to the livestock industry. Recognition, the founders decided, should take the form of a portrait of each member. The original portrait artist was James R. Stuart. He was followed by Arvid Nieholm. Most of their portraits were destroyed in the stockyards fire of 1934, and Robert Grafton was commissioned to redo the lost canvases. After completing 100 portraits in two years, Artist Grafton dropped dead. Saddle & Sirloin's current portraitist is Othmar Hoffler. He has been...
Fighting alongside white units, the Negro doughboys helped extend outposts across the Saua River. With bazookas, flamethrowers and Browning automatic fire they beat off frontal attacks by day, creeping infiltration by night, until the Bougainville base was finally secured. By last week they were either veterans or casualties of the jungle war and white troops were no longer reluctant to serve beside them. Proudest of their record is Major General Raymond G. Lehman, of Sleepy Eye, Minn., commander of the 93rd, who has been a Regular Army officer since 1917 and commands Negro troops because he likes to lead them...
...certain invasion imperatives. To land troops they need beaches (ruling out cliffs, bluffs and marshes). The beaches must be near or at invasion "musts": ports, which must be promptly taken to anchor the first links in the chain of supply. The ports must have roads and rails to extend the chain with the advance; and should be close to England...