Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Four months ago Winston Churchill got around to acknowledging the second-front agitation, saying that he welcomed the "militant, aggressive spirit . . . and the general desire to come to the closest grips with the enemy." Three months ago London and Washington announced that full understanding had been reached "with regard to the urgent tasks of creating a second front in Europe...
...this program, Professor B. F. Wright, Chairman of the Department, pointed out that this course of study does not provide for any change in the general college rules applying to distribution, nor does it call for any considerable changes in the present practice of the Department of Government with regard to the Divisional examinations...
...late. His own motto is: "Attack, attack and reattack, even when you are on the defensive." His politeness is unfailing, but staff officers confronting him for the first time remark his pale blue eyes with unwavering, pinpoint pupils, his clipped mustache and his clipped, machine-gun orders; they regard him as a somewhat dashing but thoroughly competent commander. His chief aide in the field as the battle joined was Lieut. General Bernard Law Montgomery, 54-year-old Ulsterman, who is merciless, almost brutal. In the two of them Rommel might indeed have met his equals...
...principle of automatic heat control, now used in electrically heated flying suits, has been applied by General Electric Co. to a bed blanket which looks, feels and launders like any cotton-wool blanket, but carries a low-voltage current which can be set to maintain any desired temperature without regard to weather changes or home fuel shortage...
...mysterious "pep-pills" long-rumored in use by the Nazi army have been tentatively identified. They are probably benzedrine sulfate-a drug ten times as potent as caffeine and often used by U.S. college students (without regard to the harmful aftereffects on their nerves) to supercharge them through cram-sessions and finals. This is the conclusion of Gordon Alles and George Feigen of Cal Tech, who have been studying antifatigue drugs for years. The U.S. is not officially supplying its armed forces with such pills, although the British use them. So far as Dr. Alles knows, no pep-pills have...