Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard University's war enrollment appeared to be over the hump last night as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced the first jump in registration since the start of the war. Some 863 civilian students have signed up for the winter term, compared with 753 for the summer term...
...newest weapon. It was final proof that if he could control the sea north of New Guinea with air power and the help of the U.S. navy, he need not plow the 1,500 miles through New Guinea's jungle to the tip and the jump-off for the Philippines...
...used to start walking on a pavement, step over and round sleeping men, and then use the road, dodge to avoid a speeding jeep, hop behind a lorry to get away from fast baseball players, be compelled to walk on the road again, only to jump clear of a rash driver, and so on down the road between a double line of huge lorries, where men played cards sitting on petrol tins, shaved with a mere drop of water, using the small windscreen mirror to see how they were progressing, and washed clothes in about one pint of water...
Pocket Amphibians. But progress this way was slowed by bitter resistance. Another Canadian force knifed through the German pocket at its weakest point, and bisected it, reaching the Scheldt at Terneuzen. The design was to jump off from Terneuzen and land among the Germans downstream, creating a bridgehead within a bridgehead. Amphibious equipment could not be brought up the river, under the guns of German batteries at Breskens and Flushing, and had to be improvised on the spot...
...Civilians were getting 2.09% fewer cigarets this year than last. The shortage, universal throughout the U.S., had only started; leading brands will be increasingly scarce during the winter, with no real letup until after V-E day. Reasons: 1) manpower; 2) shortage of paper for shipping cartons; 3) a jump in orders from the armed forces; 4) counter-to-counter shopping by individual smokers for their favorite brands...