Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swinging into the final week of play yesterday, a rugged NROTC 3B outfit-paced by Jack Clark topped ROTC 3A, 46 to 43 and ROTC 1-2 squeezed past Company A, 23 to 22. Supplemented by an influx of Varsity hoopmen, the present tourney has offered plenty of polished basketball, but in general has fallen short of previous league races for unity and competitive spirit. This is borne out by numerous forfeits and postponed games...
...armored infantry units were sweeping up cities such as Frankfurt am Main and Wiesbaden, gathering a rich bag of prisoners-one day more than 8,000, another probably 10,000. That pleased Patton: he is proud that his Third Army has captured more Germans than any other U.S. outfit in this drive. Casualty reports were coming, and they were low; Patton is proud of his Army's small percentage of killed and wounded. The reports on ground taken and held came in-one day: 950 square miles of Germany. That made the total 8,790 square miles, more than...
...Wrote wounded Private Carl G. Ekdahl of Providence, R.I.: "I . . . hope to get back to my outfit in the near future. I've got more to fight for now as most of my buddies will be staying on that island forever. People back home will never know what it was like to take Iwo Jima. . . . All the time . . . I never feared for myself be cause I knew the Lord was with...
...should be of considerable interest. It is worth noting, primarily, that no major studio took on this documentary of the Mexican village of Santiago and its fight against typhoid fever. Squalid ignorance is not the sort of thing Hollywood can treat sympathetically, as a rule, but a small outfit has presented the conflict between the old and new in a manner that rivals the job S. M. Eisenstein, the Russian director, did in the same area in 1933 with his "Time...
Navy has been able to practice all winter on the ice-free Severn and promises to produce a crack outfit. However, military secrets are well kept, even when they pertain to athletic teams, and no times or crew compositions have as yet been announced...