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...Army captured Zhitomir, it severed the Wehrmacht's last north-to-south railway in pre-1939 Russia, compelled the Germans to use the single-track line 100 miles to the west, in pre-1939 Poland. This defeat virtually split apart Germany's southern and central armies, will hamper the shifting of reserves from sector to sector to meet Russian attacks. Main attacks...
This wrecking process had two objectives: 1) to put a long-term strain on Italy's resources; 2) to hamper the enemy's efforts to amass sufficient reserves of food, munitions and transport for the defense of the islands which cannot long subsist on their own resources...
Where to Attack? The Russians had every reason to attack, first to hamper preparations for German offensives, second to complete the defeat of the Axis in Russia. They had wounded the Germans badly during the winter; they were probably stronger in 1943 than they had been in 1942, the Germans were probably weaker. From one end of the front to the other, Russian offensives could...
...compromise to top Senators and Representatives. Into his office trooped a group of C.I.O. leaders to demand a veto of certain labor bills (outlawing jurisdictional strikes, calling for union elections at least every four years). Harold Stassen looked at the bills, said he did not think they would hamper "good unions." The conference broke up amicably; said a departing C.I.O. leader: "Sink a few Japs for us, Governor...
...this way, each man could be limited as to the number of classes he might attend and no class would have more visitors than it could easily accomodate in unused seats. Nor would the fact that lectures are pointed at men who have previous knowledge of the context necessarily hamper the success of the plan. Experience with the Nieman fellows and other graduate students, chronic samplers of Harvard teaching, has shown that no professor has to alter his lecture or make any introductory remarks before addressing an interested outsider...