Word: salient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops were trapped in Flanders when they failed to cut the narrow neck of the German salient to the channel, only 12½ miles wide between...
...Allied planes bombing Berlin, and Allied guns blasting Nazi tanks, but Plewman wrote dispassionately: "Whether the Allied Air Forces can give enough help to enable the French Army to stand its ground during the rest of the week is un certain. . . . The French may have to evacuate the Peronne salient and fall back on positions probably well prepared along the Compiegne-Montdidier line...
...review for Music 1 was merely an attempt to organize material and to point out salient facts about each period in the history of music. This type of review Music 1 was proud to predicate on three important factors: first, that its students were genuinely interested in the course; second, that the instructors had made the subject seem so alive that the students were drawn automatically toward doing the listening; and third, that it would be impossible to pass the type of examination given in Music 1 without having done the listening...
...note: The Crimson regrets its error as to Mr. French's status in the Department of Music. But the contention that, with only occasional exceptions, instructors have shown themselves unable to "organize material and point out salient facts" still stands. And we have been corroborated by other instructors in our opinion that graduate students familiar with Freshman courses could handle the job efficiently...
...German columns advancing on Sedan. Though outnumbered, they succeeded in destroying pontoon bridges, breaking up tank concentrations. That day the Germans claimed to have downed 200 Allied planes, but the French estimated that at least five German mechanized divisions were temporarily prevented from pouring into the Sedan salient...