Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Walter Lippmann: "Because it is necessary to improvise, it is necessary to place in command of the whole operation younger officers who are not set in their ways . . . who will seek out men who know what has been done in British waters, who by the spirit they possess will energize and inspire the whole campaign." To feed U.S. fears were harrowing ac counts of survivors landed from torpedoed ships at ports from New London to Key West, a May toll of 15 ships sunk in the Gulf alone, the spread of U-boat depredations to the coast of good...
Eliot House's championship eight meets its counterpart, Trumbull College of Yale, at New Haven today as the Crimson representatives seek to prolong the victory streak over the Elis which they started back...
This was Nanking in December 1937. If a military tribunal were to seek out the responsibility for this tragedy, it would find guilty the man who was directly responsible for the discipline of the first Japanese troops to enter the city: their commander, Lieut. General Prince Yashuhiko Asaka. Without recourse to tribunal, the Japanese High Command withdrew him from Nanking...
Last week, on the brush-covered, gully-cut hills of Camp Bullis, 20 miles northwest of San Antonio, Tex., demolition experts previewed the program, found it good. Potential "students" and newshawks, advised to "look up and dodge" rather than seek cover, watched a picked demolition detail lop off a 17-in. tree with "a necklace of half-pound TNT blocks, open up a 4-ft. roadway crater, send barbed-wire entanglements up in a spray. Two TNT blocks neatly halved a railroad rail. A homemade mine (an old cartridge box, batteries, scrap iron, wire, string...
...Harvard has long laughed at the wit of its son, and it is only fair that meanwhile its son shoudl have been storing up laughs at Harvard. Professors, students and the University life itself are all the subjects of his probing pen, which seems to have only to seek to find humor...