Word: largest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year's band is the largest in Harvard history, numbering over 150 members. It is also probably the best ever here, since, with a few more rehearsals it may even out-play the 1949 band that made the "Half Time" album last year. Not one musical error was made on the recordings; Wintergreen was re-recorded when slight defeets showed in the first cutting so the album would be as near perfect as possible...
...matter what, they'll never have to sell that big drum, or the heavy upright base drum. The base is the world's largest, made of pure brass and priecless today. The band bought it for $100 and costs of transportation, from a company that it took it after-John Philip Sousa's band came...
...part-HMC party set out to reconnoiter K2, the second largest mountain in the world. To their surprise they get 1000 feet from the top--and had to turn back because of a food shortage. A few years later a Harvard man and a Dartmouth man made headlines by rescuing a starving aviator from Devil's Tower, a fantastic-looking column jutting from the Wyoming desert. It seems that the flyer, who parachuted onto the tower on a bet, had imprudently neglected to make further plans...
...food into the old German capital. The airlift had taken the lives of 31 U.S. airmen, 39 British and seven German civilians. By the time it finally shut down last week most of the original airmen had long since been transferred home, crammed with the invaluable lessons of the largest air freight operation in history...
...supplies would be drawn, in approximately equal parts, from three sources. Such items as trucks, anti-tank guns and radar equipment would have to be built (and paid for at current costs). Jeeps, rifles, ammunition, some types of artillery, and destroyer escorts (the largest ships to be sent to Europe under MAP), would come from the armed forces reserves, established after the war. They would be charged against the program at replacement cost. Other items would come from excess stocks...