Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like most Harris symphonies, the Fifth was prefaced by an elaborate pronouncement by Harris explaining its deep relation to life, destiny and the U.S. soil. Few composers have so relied on words to plug their music. Short-waved by NBC to Russia and South America, the symphony was dedicated to "the heroic people of the Soviet Union," and played in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Red Army. The new work was stormy and large in scale. It did not seem likely to disturb either of the two kinds of Harris listeners: 1) devotees, who see in Harris...
...make their programs available to troops all over the globe, the Radio Section had to develop many special facilities. The U.S. Army network now includes 29 short-wave stations; 138 standard-wave stations on United Nations soil and in the theaters of action; 37 U.S. expeditionary-force stations, 6,500 phonograph-radio kits issued to troops at embarkation ports...
Beneficiaries of the new handbook will include at present the Navy Supply Corps School, Electronics School, Army Air Forces Statistical School, Naval Training School, Chaplain School, Soil Mechanics course, Engineer Amphibian Command, and Surgery and Tropical Medicine courses...
...counteroffensive was deliberately limited, deliberately seasonal. This winter it is not. "The beginning of the massed drive of the enemy from Soviet lands has begun," said the Order of the Day. With Russia's armed manpower constantly growing, the Russians say that they can drive Germany off Russian soil...
...told how one of General Doolittle's flyers, forced to bail out on Chinese soil after bombing Tokyo, had seen the populace running toward him, had waved and shouted the only Chinese word he knew: "Mei-kuo, Mei-kuo"-America, America (literally, said Madame Chiang, "beautiful country"). "Our people laughed and almost hugged him and greeted him like a long-lost brother...