Word: spans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yankee from Olympus, by Catherine Drinker Bowen, a biography of Chief Justice Holmes, remained on the list of popular books all year by virtue of the wisdom, the knowledge of law, the humor and the span of American history embodied in its hero...
Deadly Defense. With K8, a gunner needs relatively little training. He sets three dials, recording the altitude and speed of his own ship and the wing span of the target plane (after he recognizes the type), then looks through the sight itself -a circle of orange light with a dot in the center. Using a foot pedal to regulate the circle's size, he frames the target, from wing tip to wing tip, in the circle (see cut). The machine then instantaneously makes all the necessary computations; all the gunner has to do is press the trigger...
...Word of Farewell. Soon from the shelter strutted eight spic-&-span staff officers, one a Heidelberg alumnus with dueling scars on his face; 400 German soldiers and 30-odd U.S. captives followed them. Colonel Wilck asked for and received permission to address a Word of farewell to his men. Said he: "Dear German soldiers, I am speaking to you at a painful moment. ... I saw that further fighting was useless. ... At this time I have to remind you that you are still German soldiers. Please behave as such. I also wish you the best of health in your future travels...
...roadside and digs into a can of K rations-he does not like to cause a flurry of deference to his stars by taking lunch at some command post. But, back at his headquarters, the General insists that the staff officers who dine with him appear in spic-&-span uniforms. When he enters the mess his officers hop to attention and hold it until he nods them at ease. He dresses immaculately, but detests flashy uniforms, refers to service and decorations ribbons as "brag rags." But he wears his own on formal occasions, because that is proper military behavior...
...backfield. Against Pittsburgh, the rosy-cheeked V12 right halfback handled the ball 14 times, gained 232 yards, raced to four touchdowns (one an 84-yard gallop). Against Tulane, his change-of-pace foxing of the defense enabled him to pull down the first touchdown pass. But Kelly's span at South Bend may be short; he completes his V12 training about...