Word: skips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adequately given by Darrah and after midyears Hisaw, Harvard's edition of Will Rogers. This is a remarkably complete course, and men who thought they had enough prerequisites to skip it have regretted its omission...
...planes over the South Atlantic to Africa; over the Pacific to U.S. outposts, to China, the Dutch East Indies and Australia. The U.S.-Africa run was started only four months ago by veteran over-water flyers -mostly from Pan American Airways. Planes now take off from Florida, hop-skip across the West Indies to steaming Brazilian airports, then jump 1,700 miles to Africa's wild & woolly Gold Coast...
...determine just how far the comic muse can tickle you. You'll wince at one or two moments, but have a delightful time and then come out wondering just why you laughed so hard. And, oh, yes, a quick glance at any reputable time-table will help you skip the second feature, something incredible...
...Prong. The Japanese chose their first landings well (see map): near Serang in the west, a hop & skip across the Sunda Strait from invaded Sumatra; on the broad, open coasts of Indramayu Bay, 160 miles eastward from Serang; at Rembang, another 225 miles to the east. Thus the Jap with three strokes sliced up the northern Javanese coast, flanked the capital of Batavia, the Army's mountain fortress at Bandung and Java's chief naval base at Surabaya...
...newspapers have one advantage: there are no ads on the front page. Further more, the human eye has learned to skip ads it does not wish to read, whereas the human ear still has difficulty tuning out commercials. Some commercials sound more obtrusive in a newscast than others...