Word: rim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heaviest burden in the first phase fell on the British First Army, which had been assigned the job of clearing the rim of the plain of Tunis and running out on to the plain itself. The First had done most of this job. The height known as Long Stop Hill (TIME, May 3) was firmly in its hands. One last hill, Djebel bou Aoukaz, known to the troops as The Bou, remained before the open plain. The hill was British one day and German the next. At week's end the hill was German...
...peace was not this valley's destiny. This valley was the gate to Tunis, 35 miles from the soldiers' hilltop. Of all the positions held by the Allies in Tunisia, these on the rim of the valley were the most important...
...Hill Beside the Valley. When early this month the British First Army pushed northward into hills on the valley rim, they found the going good. They took the high ground above Medjez-el-Bab. Up the nearby heights by mule pack they hauled artillery. With the artillery already in place west and south of Medjez-el-Bab, a great horseshoe of batteries covered the valley where it de bouches on the plain before Tunis. All the batteries pointed toward three objectives: the fortified hill known as Long Stop and the two hills in front of it. Without Long Stop, dominating...
...flash. Electric-eye cameras reveal the number of separate pulses within a single stroke. Another device (the fulchronograph) clocks the quickest stroke and measures the amount of current. Its heart is an ever-turning aluminum wheel, with hundreds of small strips of magnet steel projecting from its rim. Lightning, when it strikes, creates an electrical field in coils which magnetize the strips. When the fins are removed in the laboratory their magnetism is measured, gives the strength of the stroke charted...
...flight of James's photographs, flung down upon the idolaters by a publicity man, broke her reverie. The crowd yelled and scrambled for the pictures. Inside the theater, the feature ended and the expectant jitterbugs tightened up. Ushers moved to the rim of the orchestra pit and faced the audience. The curtain rose. There was Harry James...