Word: growths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yearling's Growth. The yearling Twentieth Air Force was feeling its oats. It had virtually withdrawn from its first, hand-hewn bases in China, and shifted planes from there to Tinian. It had another new wing in the Marianas, operating from a great new field on Guam. The weight of its blows had been stepped up 100% in two months, and would soon be further increased...
First, Thayer got rid of Partridge - no easy job. Soon after, he succeeded in dismissing the son of a major general for returning late from vacation. Thus began the impartial, ironclad discipline that was to shape West Point's growth...
Commenting on the merger, Irwin Leff '47, president of the Liberal Union, expressed his group's interest in the new organization. "We are pleased to see this growth of student interest in political affairs. The Liberal Union," said Leff, "has presented forums of this type in the past primarily because there was no other group that could...
...Fauré's prize student came from the most musical household in all Paris. Rue Rochechouart rang day & night with the exuberant music played by four uncles, a dozen aunts, a score of first cousins. Father, an actor, composed operettas; grandfather, an amateur fiddler, zealously watched the musical growth of each member of the clan...
Knut Hamsun, 85, Nobel Prizewinning Norwegian novelist (Growth of the Soil, The Road Leads On) and pro-Nazi intellectual, was reported to have suffered a nervous breakdown upon learning of the German collapse. Once before the old man was made ill by wartime: a stroke overtook him in 1942 when countrymen who had once loved his books mailed him thousands of dog-eared copies after he advised them to "throw away your rifles. . . " The Germans are fighting for us and now are crushing England's tyranny over us and all neutrals...