Word: ruggedness
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Stalemate's End. For 141 days, the Allies had painfully slogged northward over rugged mountain folds. The progress was costly in blood and time, gave the Germans opportunity to fortify new lines.
"Everything," for a fighter plane, covers a lot of ground. But on its battle performance the P-51B was clearly fast, rugged and maneuverable enough to tackle any foe at any altitude. Top speed is well over 400 m.p.h., ceiling above 40,000 ft. The Mustang packs plenty of armament...
In New Guinea, Australian troops seized Sio, a Japanese barge center. The dividend: when these units join Americans, now pressing ahead on the rugged Huon peninsula coast, the stage will be set for a drive on Madang.
They do not regard membership in cooperatives as synonymous with "collectivism" or "socialism." To them, it is the voluntary "integration" of the individual with the community, something that might be called "nonisolated individualism" as contrasted with "rugged individualism." Waring & Teller believe in reading books, and they swear particularly by the...
When Bridson got around to Brooklyn last week, he was stymied. After investigation he had decided that "in some ways Brooklyn seems to me the most English place in America." He gave the professional actors a rest and let the Brooklynites speak for themselves. He was about as successful as...