Word: ist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charge Here? contains altogether 159 of the delicate lunacies, the scenes of bizarre domestic confusion exquisitely rendered with a crow quill pen which have made The New Yorker's George Price one of the most popular of U.S. comic artists. One industrious hobby ist is shown completing a parlor-sized steam engine right in the parlor it is sized to fit. His wife wanly observes: "Some times I even wish he'd get interested in another woman." Another character, the father of a crowded and bewildered family, is at last able to explain to them the curio which...
...ever duplicated shellac's complicated chemical structure. But Chem ist C. G. Harford, of the Arthur D. Little laboratory in Cambridge, Mass., found that a resin named zein, derived from corn, behaved very much like shellac. A drawback, however, was that in solution zein had a tendency to jell. By an un disclosed chemical process, Harford finally succeeded in converting zein into a non-jelling resin. The result, Zinlac, not only has the quick-drying, elastic qualities of shellac, but is also more resistant to water and makes a better coat for metal...
Fiercest were the five days around Troina, a craggy road junction shielding the German position on Mt. Etna's northwest shoulder. The first combat team thrown against Troina by Major General Terry Allen's ist Infantry Division bounced back hard. German howitzers and mor tars skillfully held the hilltops. The ist Division massed its artillery, called in dive-bombers of the Tactical Air Force. For 72 hours the dust of an Allied barrage hung over the German emplacements. Then the ist Division smashed forward and through Troina...
Once the landings were over and consolidated, Allen entered the blackest period of his Army life. The 1st Infantry Division found itself in a situation remark ably similar to that which the ist of World War I faced in early 1918. It was broken up. Its battalions, with those of other divisions, were scattered over a 100-mile defensive front, under British and French command. These arrangements may have been unavoidable at the time, but they graveled Terry Allen. "I blooded them, didn't I?" he would say in aggrievement when he thought of his lost battalions. Finally, fuming...
...will be killed carrying out his orders, but he has accepted the inevitability of it. He will spare or spend his men as military necessity demands; while they live he will see that they get every comfort and consideration. That is one reason why the spirit of the ist Division is second to none in the U.S. Army...