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...remainder of the week will be occupied with the completion of Classification and Processing of the new class and initial lectures in the courses of Courtesies, Customs and Discipline, Practical Duties, Map Reading, Defense Against Chemical Warfare, and Military...
...ready. Within the next 24 hours, Douglas MacArthur's men had crossed 90 miles of blue sea, wrenched a beachhead from the Japs on New Britain Island, pressed closer the western arm of the Allied pincers slowly closing on Rabaul, the enemy's Southwest Pacific stronghold (see map...
...strung in a double chain: the Radak, or Sunrise, group on the east; the Ralik, or Sunset, group on the west. They are run-of-the-Pacific, tropical atolls: low, narrow coral formations studded with is lets, enclosing calm lagoons where volcanic cones may once have jutted (see map, p. 26). Twenty years ago, when the Japs settled down to prepare for World War II, the islands had a population of 10,000 Kanakas, lazygoing, brown-skinned Micronesian fishermen and boatmen...
...Nevel (see map), the Red Army widened its wedge jutting eagerly towards the Baltic States, less than 60 miles away...
Their book is less a handbook than a lively, disorderly, hair-splitting collection of obiter dicta. In an agile linguistic commando raid Authors Graves & Hodge survey the terrain of English prose and map its modern contours. Armed with 25 "principles of clear statement" they blast at 54 recent writers...