Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Naval officers 2500 strong and 900 Army officers will be seated in the East Stands of the Stadium, usually occupied by the Cadets and act as the Army rooting section. Their seats extend from the 40-yard line and reach back to the goal line on the north end of the field...
...advance to the Don and down that stream and finally reach the Volga, if we continuously storm Stalingrad- which we shall also take, you may depend on it-then all that means nothing...
Next day the Australians pushed forward, but found no Japs, except some coolies who had been killed by strafing. At week's end the Australians had crossed two more ridges to reach Efogi (see map, p, 34), but still no Japs. Nearing the gap. the Aussies made "light contact" with Jap patrols, but where and when the battle of the Owen Stanley Mountains would be joined, nobody knew. The Australians crept forward more cautiously, lest they fall into a Jap trap...
...interesting results which Taylor hopes to expand in the present course. It showed, first of all, that Harvard students' ability to learn the code far exceeds the average expected by the Army and Navy. The latter puts forth 130 hours of practice as the amount of time required to reach a receiving speed of 13 words a minute; over half of the Summer Class reached that speed in less than 45 hours of practice...
...armed forces and at essential war jobs. Of 17,300,000 women in this age group, 7,800,000 are in uniform or at work. When the U.S. has a combined military, war-worker and essential-industry force of 61,000,000 it will reach the same stage of mobilization-and know what total war means...