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Surveying his assignment, Isoroku Yamamoto saw that his greatest permanent necessity would be to keep British power and U.S. power from effecting a junction. If, with the help of the Army, he could break off the rungs by which the U.S. Navy has to climb over the shoulder of the Pacific to Singapore, his job would be much easier. Therefore the attacks on Pearl Harbor, Wake, Midway and Guam were important; but the penultimate rung, the Philippine Islands, was most vital to his cause...
...Belmont score came late in the final period, and it marked the third successive fracas in which the opposition averted a shutout with a last minute goal. The Yardlings have rung up 18 scores in their three contests...
...night. Girls hate subways. Fine time to think of that. Why did he ever make this date in the first place? For a desperate split second he wished that the evening were in back of him and not all to come . . . and then, in spite of himself, he had rung the door bell...
...Ersatz" rubber is already being produced in this country by all the major American rubber companies and has proved even more durable than the national product for certain articles rung as gasoline hose, oil-retaining gaskets pump packing, deducing surfaces and bullet proof tanks...
When the great defeats began, and the "great army of the wounded" was hauled into Washington (Stanton was against an ambulance service), there was almost no way of caring for them. Churches were turned into hospitals and on Sundays the church bells could not be rung because of the masses of suffering below them...