Word: portions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Will of Man. By his labor a man imparts a portion of his life to the soil; to leave his land is thus like a touch of death. Nor does a man easily leave the soil his father and forefathers have wrested from the sea. The great basalt dike at Westkapelle had been started 500 years ago. The Germans had built pillboxes on it. Allied bombers had breached it. Commandos had poured through its gaps, in the wake of the rushing sea. Here & there, like beached sea monsters, still sprawled the rusting hulks of dead British armor...
...what kind of a postwar military establishment it would like to have (TIME, Nov. 20), the Navy has kept a cautious silence. Last week a hint of Navy hopes came out. Navy Secretary Forrestal announced that a board of naval officers would try to figure out how a sizable portion of the 226,050 reserve officers now serving can be induced to stay on as professionals after...
Harvard's portion of the program featured two madrigals by Gastoldi and choruses from "Patience," by Gillbert and Sullivan. After several offerings by the Smith Glee Club, the two groups combined to sing three pieces by Hindemith and a selection from Handel's "Solomon." There was a dance after the performance...
Length & Breadth. But if the road to Japan had been widened, the portion which U.S. supplies must travel had been lengthened, as hardheaded Admiral Mitscher was quick to point out. The Pacific war, said he, must slow down now, not because of defeats, but because of victories which have moved U.S. bases forward by thousands of miles. In his best professorial manner Mitscher soundly lectured: Americans have no idea of the effort consumed in getting food, ammunition and other supplies to the islands of the Pacific-it means a lot more shipping than is available now. "We'll just...
They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate: I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate...