Word: overing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Budgets & Books. Over the years, the self-perpetuating board of trustees of the University of Chicago has grown accustomed to wincing every time Robert Hutchins opens his mouth (he once suggested that all universities be burned down every 25 years lest they get into a rut). But he is a...
Out of Waldorf's system has grown a "you-get-'em, we'll-hold-'em" alliance between the defensive and offensive units that prompted Cal's Safety Man Carl Van Heuit to apologize to the offense after a 35-21 victory over U.C.L.A. Never before...
At 10 a.m. next day, 51-year-old Pacific Theater War Veteran Billick Whelchel, the man who coached Navy to its last victory over Army (in 1943), got his walking papers. One of his assistants, balding, 39-year-old Herman Ball, stepped up to become the Redskins' sixth coach...
True, high altitude bombers sent against warships "have their limitations. They can seldom see a target on the ground clearly, except by radar." And with "ordinary bombs which fly many miles horizontally as they drop they cannot hit the side of a barn-they cannot even hit a small city...
The Canceled Bomber. On the other hand, the bomber in mass formations over land targets had become very vulnerable. One lesson of World War II, says Bush, is that "bombardment of enemy cities in the face of determined defense, as the sole means of bringing victory over a foe of...