Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Mac," as her colleagues call her, has a gift for getting down to earth. She was getting ready last week to shove off on another one of her frequent speaking and inspection trips to Navy bases. This one would take her to the Ninth Naval District, in the Midwest. Navymen, who like people who get down to earth, looked forward to her coming. As far as her own outfit was concerned, Miss Mac expected to find very little out of the way. There had never been any serious troubles among the women of the U.S. Naval Reserves. Now that...
...five U.S. firms are now producing Bailey bridge parts for the Army and Lend-Lease, but none sees a bright postwar future for it. At 12½? a foot, a Bailey costs twice as much as a conventionally built steel bridge. But in flood country, where bridge washouts are frequent, Baileys may well be kept tucked away for emergency...
...Hollandia, a return engagement at Truk, ("This time," said Commander Cameron Briggs, "we intend our performance to knock them completely off their feet"), the battles in the Philippine Sea. The Navy has let Jensen disclose some of its jealously misguarded secrets: the complete war records of some carriers, and frequent identification of other carriers and their air groups engaged in various battle; the makeup of a typical carrier task group; some of the "hideous errors," as well as the feats of skill and daring, which have marked the development of carrier war. But beyond the what, when & where of naval...
Metro and Paramount are the most frequent employers of Technicolor. Universal's dabblings, in this case at any rate, descend to color per so. In black-and-white, "Can't Help Singing" would be nothing. Even with Color, music by Jerome Kern, and stiff, conventional acting by Deanna Durbin and Robert Paige, it represents the lowest in a painfully low series...
...game of jai alai (pronounced high lie) is Cuba's contribution to Miami's sport life. Long popular in a grubby way, despite its commercialization - its bursts of breath-taking action punctuated by frequent intermissions while the audience was canvassed for bets - it may prove to be a big-time gambling game...