Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drove decisively through the mountains, and by week's end the head of his thrust lay close to the flat land extending east from Moulmein. The defenders' withdrawal had been orderly. Now they hoped to slice up the Jap in terrain that was more to their liking. Meanwhile, 150 miles south on Burma's slender panhandle, the Jap had grabbed Tavoy. In that position he held a secondary block against any British push to the south, which at the moment was unlikely...
Downcast last week was Mr. Cameron; downcast was the Detroit Symphony, 76 of whose 81 members will no longer make a minimum of $26 extra per week; down cast was McCann-Erickson, Ford's advertising agency, over the loss of a big slice of Ford business. But no more morose than usual was Radio Comic Fred Allen, who will move in to CBS's coveted Sunday evening spot on March...
...last U.S.-held slice of Luzon it was everybody's war. Army cooks strove to put out the best of food, robbed each other blind. In lulls, barbers calmly cut soldiers' hair. In one comprehensive job, a barber cut the hair of seven Marines by letters so that when they stood together the pattern of the cuts spelled VICTORY...
...education. An over-enthusiastic use of the budgetary shears would lower those standards until we would be competing on intellectually even terms with state universities instead of offering customers a superior brand of education. Since the University's only bargaining point is its educational advantages, it cannot afford to slice out of its budget more than the most lacy of frills. Even the ten per cent cut last spring weakened the props of the tutorial system, the basis of the College's superiority...
...today's confusion, the cadence of The MARCH OF TIME has the sane, steady, rhythmic beat of a metronome. It is a weekly slice of Now, the Present, calculated to give all America the picture of tremendous events in sharp focus...