Word: garrisoning
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...When in 1937 the Japanese took over a large section of the city, the bottom dropped out of the Chinese dollar, in which Shanghai collected its taxes. For three years the Settlement Government staggered along as best it could, went into a decline last summer when its British garrison left for Singapore...
...British had, besides, sent troops and planes to Iraq. In three weeks of sand-lot holy warfare, they had crushed the Air Force and just about crushed the land forces of the pro-Axis Premier-by-Revolt Rashid Ali El-Gailani. Last week the British reinforced their garrison in Iraq by sending units of the Fleet Air Arm to the top of the Persian Gulf...
...last week that the British, conscious of Freetown's new strategic importance, were taking steps to strngthen it. The 22,424-ton Monarch of Bermuda, late of the pleasure trade deposited "between 3,000 and 5,000 troops" there, adding to the port's reputed garrison of 30,000. Freetown would never become a Singapore, but it was repidly becoming Africa's Hong Kong-a base dedicated to defensive harassment and delay...
...simple set made up of an old farmhouse a ladder ascending to heaven, and the lefty castle of Zeus, was designed by Howard Turner '41 and John Holabird '42. It is in keeping with the verse choruses added by William M. Abrahams '41, Garrison Poetry prize winner, and the score composed by Leonard Bernstein '39, a former pupil of Serge Koussevitsky, Boston Symphony conductor, and director of the H.S.U.'s first dramatic production, Marc Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock...
...extraordinary variety of talent which runs the line from William Abrahams, '41 winner of the Lloyd McKinn Garrison Poetry Prize to Vern Miller '42, 250-pound Varsity football tackle, has been assembled for this their fourth venture into the world of amateur theatricals...