Word: hops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...played a bang-up game despite a bandaged left hand. Wallace was very fast, but he lacked control in some spots. Alert base running paved the way for several Crimson markers. Kidder might have escaped the disastrous fourth inning with fewer runs scored against him except for a bad-hop grounder that skidded freakishly over the Tufts shortstop's head. The Jumbo dugout jockeys had quite a lot of comment for so few runs. HARVARD ab h po a Falsey, ss 4 1 5 3 Williams, cf 5 0 2 0 Coulson 1b 4 1 8 0 Chapple...
...stretch themselves. General Douglas MacArthur, in the Southwest Pacific, was in the best position for such a move, and inching closer to the takeoff point. From westernmost New Guinea to Halmahera was an easy distance (200 miles) by the new U.S. Pacific standards; from Halmahera it is another short hop (400 miles) to Mindanao in the Philippines...
Less than a year ago the Navy's utmost effort was an island hop onto New Georgia. In beginning the Marianas campaign the Navy had completed a gargantuan, leap 3,750 miles from its main base at Pearl Harbor to within 1,500 miles of Japan's homeland...
Comeback at Biak. Some 1400 miles south of Guam, General Douglas Mac- Arthur's last important island hop in his leapfrogging New Guinea campaign was progressing-but it was no walkover. Sixth Army infantrymen had been all but stalled in their drive along the coastal flats of Biak Island in the Schouten group, aimed at the capture of three airfields within heavy-bomber range of the Philippines. They had to fall back, call for reinforcements, amend their tactics. Last week they drove inland, outflanked the Japs, captured Mokmer airfield...
Washington speculated that MacArthur's next hop might be 700 miles to Halmahera on the Vogelkop (bird's head) that is New Guinea's western end. From Halma hera to Mindanao, southernmost Philippine island, is 400 miles...