Word: focals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ceylon for Wavell. At the southern nub of India, where the Indian Ocean meets the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea, lies a focal center of General Wavell's task: Britain's island of Ceylon...
...student body and Faculty will register under the provisions of the Selective Service and Training Act on Sunday and Monday, February 15 and 16, when the nation signs up its third batch of potential draftees. Memorial Hall, scene of the past two draft registrations, will again be the focal point for University men concerned...
Again invited to speak, and really expected to show up this time, Ben Tichner, former All-American Crimson center, will probably be the focal point of the gathering...
...Observatory's yard, an amateur, Carl Joseph Redland, in daylight hours a barber in the University Barber Shop, displayed a 12 1/2-inch reflecting telescope which he had made entirely by hand, even to iron-cast mountings, and the mirrow which is ground to a focal test accuracy of a millionth of an inch...
...Japanese had taken Changsha, they had scored their first important victory in China since Ichang fell in June, 1940. Changsha was the focal point of all communications feeding the central front south of the Yangtze. Into Changsha for redistribution poured men and arms from Chungking, gasoline and supplies from the Burma Road, food from neighboring rice country. If Changsha was in Japanese hands, there were dark days ahead for Chiang Kai-shek's Armies to the north and east...