Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chairman of the Conservative Party Major Thomas Lionel Dugdale: "A bold and imaginative conception. . . . We are only too ready to extend a welcome to the principle...
Convinced that an Allied invasion of southern Europe is not only imminent but highly desirable, Smuts needs to extend the area where his troops can operate. So he last week called for parliamentary reform of South Africa's 1912 Defense Act. On the wave of patriotism following the recapture of Tobruk, Smuts cried that South Africans must now rescue 12,000 of their countrymen held prisoners in Italy. He was well aware of the attacks he would face from his two leading opposition parties: Dr. Daniel François Malan's antiwar, pro-Nazi Herenigde...
Through the Step Test the Athletic Association has been enabled to concentrate on the average student as much as the team athlete. And the Hygiene Department, which encloses the Grant Study, can now extend its efforts, to the healthy as well as the sick student with clearer aim since there is a proven connection between physical efficiency and good health...
After Admiral King was called to Washington last December, but before he publicly took command, the Pacific Fleet got its fundamental orders: "Hold the Hawaiian Islands area on the Midway line at all costs," and "Hold the communications line to the southwest Pacific on the Samoa-Fiji line and extend it to New Caledonia" (see map, p. 32). Said Admiral King last week...
...equipment and pictures through Australia. Grateful Australian airmen built him a hut, rebuilt it when a 500-lb. bomb took it apart (Jimmy was staying, at the moment, in a nearby slit trench named Pooh-Bah Palace). Australians and Americans have also built a chain of eight theaters which extend from Port Moresby to Milne Bay and deep into the jungle. The seats are smoothed logs nailed to stumps. The theater's acoustic walls are the jungle, which adds its own soundeffects and out of which appear like moths a few shy, amazed natives to watch from afar...