Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crashing south toward Singapore, the Jap had more than the glory of the Mikado to drive him on. He was in a desperate race with time, and if he could not beat the hands of the clock, his push to the strategic hub of the Far East was going to be a historic failure...
...have convinced even the dilettantes that their choice of courses must hereafter be influenced by more than individual whimsy. But few concentrators in Fine Arts, Literature and other "impractical" fields know whether they have any aptitudes which will keep them from being fifth wheels in the country's war push. Harvard can get off to a good start in its role as a University in war time by utilizing its facilities to give such men that information...
...take Bengasi, the capital of Cyrenaica, Lieut. General Neil Methuen Ritchie, in charge on the battlefield, had to push out Germany's General Erwin Rommel. All last week Rommel had prepared to make a stand at Bengasi with what was left of his armored forces. Apparently changing his mind, or afraid of losing valuable armored units, he abandoned the town, hit southward to Agedabia, 95 miles from Bengasi. Here he waited for the remainder of his armored forces to come in from Mechili farther north. Fighting a rear-guard action for both his units were Italy's desert...
...Britain, The Netherlands Indies, Greece and China. M-H equipment has been war-tested aplenty. The British were so pleased with their first M-H trucks (they went over desert sand like camels) that they bought about 100,000 units, are now using many of them in the Libyan push. In Crete, scores of British-and Greek-owned M-H light tanks fought mightily before being blasted to bits by Nazi bombers. Dutch-owned M-H tanks and gun carriers now plough through the jungles of Sumatra in pursuit of Jap paratroops...
...Inventor Kerst, "is a doughnut-shaped glass vacuum tube between the poles of a large electromagnet" (see cut). Inside the tube, a hot filament gives off electrons. Magnetically guided, each electron circles about the tube 400,000 times, accelerated at each rotation by small 70-volt kicks whose cumulative push gives the particle an energy of 20,000,000 volts within a fraction of a second. These fiercely energized electrons are then either: 1) Released continuously from the tube as a beam of beta rays-whence the betatron's name-which are one of the three types of radiation...