Word: outpost
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...that live in the farthest outpost of Harvard will meet the championship Yale College, Silliman on Saturday morning in what promises to be a rip-roaring touch battle at 10 o'clock...
...degree. It might technically include Dakar, Cape Verde Islands or the Azores, although the President had told his visitors the night before that such was not the case. Looking ahead, some speculative analysts thought there might be a time when some port in Eire would also be "a strategic outpost," would also be occupied by the U.S. Navy as a U.S. base...
...must be admitted that our losses have been severe." With this bleak announcement the British War Office signalized the end of not only the fiercest but also some of the most crucial fighting in World War II-the airborne invasion of Crete. After the fall of this British outpost, the Mediterranean no longer was a British lake. The concept of the Mediterranean as the Empire's commercial life line has been dead since Italy's entrance into the war forced merchant ships to sail around the Cape of Good Hope. Now, even as a military seaway, choked...
...reasons that Franklin Roosevelt touched on last year; "You and I think of Hawaii as an outpost of defense in the Pacific. And yet the Azores are closer to our shores on the Atlantic than Hawaii is on the other side." He might have added that the Azores lie at a pivotal position in the Eastern Atlantic, whence the U.S. Navy could control the approaches to the Mediterranean, do much to neutralize any Nazis at Dakar...
Last week the northwesternmost outpost of Europe moved a little closer to the U.S. By vote of its 1,011-year-old Althing ("Grandmother of Parliaments"), Iceland cut its last ties with Nazi-ruled Denmark, renounced the sovereignty of Danish Christian X, moved to establish a republic...