Word: jump
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...A.E.F. now in Britain could bear little resemblance in organization and distribution of fighting units to the A.E.F. that will jump off when the second front is launched. The big emphasis now had to be on troops that pave the way for a drive: Quartermaster, Engineer and Signal Corps outfits, housekeeping units for the Air Forces. Some combat units were on hand. But the bulk of the A.E.F.'s striking power would come later...
...Jaako Mikkola, track mentor, will have to size up his charges in toto will be the intramural meet scheduled for Thursday. For the first time in the long record of intramural meets, prises will be awarded in four field and four running events. The field events will be high jump, pole vault, hammer, and discus; the running events the 100, 300, 600 yard, and a distance race between two of the Charles River bridges...
...first book fully to report the effect of the Russian war on the German home front was published last week. Earnest young (27) Correspondent Howard K. Smith (U.P., CBS) got the jump on his interned colleagues by walking through the drab, green station doors of Basle, Switzerland on the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Last Train From Berlin (Cresset Press; London) is mostly the story of what happened in Germany between June 22 and Dec. 6 last year...
...news that the U.S. is to have a great fleet of carriers, Major Alexander P. de Seversky, whose book Victory Through Air Power has stirred a general one-way controversy (no one disbelieves in air power) did not jump up and cheer. He stood up instead to denounce the carrier fleet as a waste of precious effort, to cry that carriers are doomed. He believes that diversion of unfinished cruisers to carriers right now is a practical move, but that there is no use starting to build any new carriers. By the time they are ready...
...story called "Learn to Fight Dirty." (To dispose of an enemy sentry, "jump on his back, reach both arms around his neck and shove a foot against the back of his knee. The impact is guaranteed to double him up like a jackknife and if you twist at the same time you'll sever his spinal cord...