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...advantage of welded magnesium on the wing surfaces of planes is that it can be used in thicker sheets than steel and aluminum. This increased thickness has two effects: 1) it lessens surface vibrations which in time will weaken the wing; 2) it simplifies the maze of ribs and spars now built into wings to stiffen them...
...when Britain and her allies in the Crimean War besieged the city. Nine miles south of Sevastopol is the town of Balaklava, where the Light Brigade's 600 rode against the Russian batteries. Last week many times 600 Nazis died near Balaklava, but the Russians called their defensive maze of gunpits and tank traps nothing so poetic as "the valley of death." They called it "the meat grinder." Jaws of the grinder were two stony heights, Fediukhiny to the south and Mekenzevy to the east. Guns emplaced on these slopes commanded all the land approaches to Sevastopol. Below them...
...three exhausting weeks Stilwell led our undisciplined, untrained party through a maze of crisscrossing paths, alternately coaxing, urging, commanding them to hurry as we sought to escape the jaws of the gigantic Japanese encircling movement. On the second day of our trek our radio was destroyed and thereafter as far as information went we marched almost blindly...
...epigrammatic brilliance which, though causing a quick chortle, tend to destroy poetic unity and completeness. In extended form these epigrams frequently become rapid-fire social commentary, and here Frost seems beyond his depth. Knowing the farms and people of New England, he is lost when he strays into the maze of an international industrial society; and the bewildered fear that creeps into poems like "Triple Bronze" is scarcely masked by defiance...
...definite series of displays. To make sure that the spectator follows the correct order, Frederick Pleasants, who directed the construction of the room, placed show cases, and the large boards on which-the exhibits are arranged, in various positions around the room, and sent students wandering through the maze...