Word: fragment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Technical Sergeant Torger Tokle, 25, towheaded, Norwegian-born ski-jump champion of the Western Hemisphere (289 feet), ex-Brooklyn carpenter; from German shell-fragment wounds; near Monte Torraccio, Italy, as his loth Mountain Infantry Division made a four-mile advance...
...James Joyce has hitherto been noted chiefly for her comment after reading Ulysses: "I guess the man's a genius, but what a dirty mind he has, surely!" Now Joyce's admirers find themselves deeply indebted to this quiet, unpublicized woman for Stephen Hero, a fragment of the first draft of Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. After it had been rejected by 20 different publishers, Joyce flung the 914-page manuscript into the fire. Mrs. Joyce risked her own skin to retrieve pages 519-902, now owned by the Harvard...
...Europe, was on a night patrol in Huertgen Forest when a mine blew his foot off. He lay where he had fallen, keeping his mouth shut so as not to betray his comrades to German infantrymen near by. Artillery shells whistled overhead in a constant barrage. A shell fragment struck his good...
...represents a valuable contribution to the problem of "Science and Intuition." Seeing the photo of the molecule was like retracing the flight of a genius to whom nature had revealed one of her innumerable secrets, a tiny fragment of her divine gestalt...
There was Russian power everywhere. The German garrison at Memel, which had held a last fragment of Lithuania since October, was overcome. And nearly 600 miles to the south, below Budapest, the Russians suddenly pushed out in new attacks...