Word: nessing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...using Siebel motor barges - too shallow in draft to be torpedoed, too well armed to be attacked efficiently by motor torpedo boats' machine guns, too small to be worth risking large naval units for, and fast enough (twelve knots) to cross the Sicilian Channel under cover of dark ness. Aircraft caught some by day, for the Germans were unquestionably trying to get away as much valuable personnel as possible. Late in the week the Axis was estimated to have withdrawn between 4,000 and 5,000 men. In two days Allied planes sank 45 vessels, including many of these...
Twenty minutes before, Lewis had ordered the miners back to work. By setting up a fifteen day limit for further negotiations perhaps he emphasized the impermanence, perhaps the save-faced-ness of his bridled patriotism. His performance, in either case, was not anti-climaxed but transcended by executive expression of a national aim. Without belittling the part of tiny strands and small threads, the President successfully emphasized the whole fabric of the nation...
...Axis Europe increased last week. Bombers from Britain were over France and the Low Countries; over Czecho-Slovakia, East Prussia, the Baltic seacoast, southern and northwestern Ger many; over factories making planes, tanks, dyes, submarine parts, aircraft motors, artillery, ammunition. Russian four-motored bombers roared out of the dark ness over Poland to batter the power stations and railroad centers at Königsberg, in East Prussia; and the machine-tool plants, warehouses, chemical factories and shipyards at Danzig on the Baltic...
...I.B.M. business multiplied. As 1942 approached its end, President Watson again faced an inevitable, enormous bonanza. He took a drastic step, requested that his extra compensation for 1942 be no greater than in 1939, explaining that thereby he would avoid personal profit from the company's munitions busi ness, of which it had none in '39. (Watson is a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.) Result of his abnegations: President Watson received a mere $428,189 from I.B.M. in 1942. Of this, $325,549 was extra compensation, which would have been $524,299 had it been...
...same date we hope the faculty will have prepared a reasonable statement of policy with regard to final judgements to be made before June 1. so, for goo'ness sake, stop worring...