Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monday night was Harvard Night at the Pops, and Cantabridgians, alumni, would-be alumni, and servicemen gathered around the little green tables on the floor of the great hall and packed the galleries. But Harvard Night gave habitual Popsgoers a heavier fare than usual, and there was less popping of bottles, less swishing of ice in glasses...
Years of Happiness. Looking back, Jan Smuts says that his Boer War days were his happiest. He came out of them 30 pounds heavier, transformed from a bookish lawyer into a hardened leader of men. On their tough Basuto ponies, he and his tough commando (guerrilla) column made a record march (700 miles in five weeks) across veld and mountain. They repeatedly outwitted Lord Kitchener's proud British Army, which Winston Churchill was covering as a young correspondent. When the rains came, they rode in water, slept in water; they endured cold, hunger, rags, sudden surprise, desperate flight. Through...
...millimeters equal one inch; a 75 is roughly a 3-in. gun. *The distinctions between "gun" and "howitzer" generally: the howitzer is lighter, has a shorter barrel, is more mobile; a howitzer with the same mobility as a gun fires a much heavier projectile but with a lower muzzle velocity and at a shorter range...
...under present rules WASPs can qualify for transport training with 35 hours flying time while men must have 1,000, including 200 in heavier aircraft before getting into transport service. In their training duties, hardly any of the men have had a chance to fly the heavier planes...
Sometimes the infantryman has trucks to transport him and vehicles for his heavier weapons. But often he still must slog along, up hill & down, through mud and through dust, toting all this new arsenal of weapons to the point of action, and then fight with them. He has to be lavish in his expenditure of physical effort under the worst of physical conditions. He also has to have guts to fight in situations where there is no possible safety for any man. And to fight effectively he has to be master of his weapon, and in the infantry today there...