Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another convention highlight: Aviators' Blackouts. After breathing the thin air of high altitudes for a while, fliers sometimes faint when they gulp oxygen from their tanks or dive swiftly to richer air. In other words, their blackout may not be due to too little oxygen but to a sudden supply of too much. Last week the University of Pennsylvania's Pharmacologist Carl Frederic Schmidt, a top-notch U. S. respirationist, explained...
Passing was the highlight of yesterday's workout, as Charley Spreyer, Don McNicol, and Cliff Helman all found the mark time after time. The Harvard aerial game will definitely show a great improvement over last fall...
...debate on conscription served to highlight the main issue in the strategy of defense. That issue is whether the Army and its air arm or the Navy and its adjuncts shall be emphasized. The partisans of conscription say the Army should be stressed now, be reenforced, and eventually have millions of troops at its beck and call; and the conscriptionists have prevailed. The Senate Naval Affairs Committee, the late Smedley Butler, and many of the anti-conscriptionists, bespoke the cause of the naval forces, and they have lost the debate...
...Army's summer Band Camp at Antioch, Ill., Drummer Burtenshaw was awakened one morning this week by a serenade of his favorite band tunes. From then on it was Brigadier Burtenshaw Day. Highlight: a concert featuring his famed bass-drum solo to the Army tune, Carry On (he has given it 6,000 times, in every part of the U. S.). Said one critic: "It is the first time I have heard a drum played as a musical instrument." Said the Brigadier with pious pride: "Well, I guess I'm just about the best there...
Tonight's German raid on Le Havre was another in a series of furious attacks and counter-attacks by air. Both sides dropped tons of bombs on each others ports and industrial centers. The highlight, of course, was yesterday's mass German air attack on Paris. The toll in human lives--just beginning to be known--now stands at nearly one thousand casualties--254 killed, 652 wounded--five times the previous figures...