Word: half-year
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...presage an Allied swing to the offensive. But up until last week the Allied High Command had shown no signs of turning away from Liddell Hart orthodoxy. And last week, in a North American Newspaper Alliance dispatch, the Captain himself showed that nothing in the war's first half-year had changed his mind. His thoughts about a spring offensive...
...first half-year drew to a close, and a solemn, long-nosed reporter for President Franklin Roosevelt went the rounds of Europe to learn if total war was truly inevitable, spokesmen for both sides restated their war aims more grimly and finally than ever. For the Allies, British Prime Minister Chamberlain said again: Hitler and his crushing "ism" must be wiped out of Europe. For himself and his oligarchy, Adolf Hitler said: he must dominate 125,000,000 Europeans and the world's trade arteries must be freed from Great Britain's "pirate" grip...
...front Germany so far has a big advantage. She was on a war basis two years ago, partially rationed, regimented, ruled literally from soup to nuts by Four-Year Planner Göring. The Allies' organization has rolled along, too-shadow factories, contraband control, women's industrial mobilization-but not without the grinding of many a gear. With 1,200,000 men in the army, with armament factories booming, Britain still has unemployment. Thus the major question of War II at the half-year mark remained not so much which economy could take it longest, but could...
Today is the last day on which undergraduates (including Freshmen) may change courses beginning in the second half-year without liability for a $5 fine and the course fee. Petitions must be filed in person at University...
...half-year leave of absence traveling in Mexico, Black could not be reached for a statement. He is over 65 years old, often the age for faculty retirements...