Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expert signal men from the companies have recently succeeded in rigging an extension of the P.A. system now employed by Co. C. The task was complicated to some degree because the wire running from McKinlock Hall across the street to Mather Hall had to be led brough a steam conduit connecting the two buildings beneath the street. Bugle alls and occasional announcements made a A company will now be heard by the men in the new companies adjacent...
...pulled up in front. In the final stretch Gil Dodds decided to move ahead. He charged heavily past Hulse, then past Hägg, pounding the track with laborious, clubbing gait. Hägg, who consistently looks around, had seen him coming. He seemed to turn on no more steam, or to speed his pace. He just exchanged places with Gil Dodds, whirled smoothly to the lead, won again...
...been described as "a blueprint for bedlam." In the movie, when Jack & Heintz workers arrive on the job, a voice announces over a loudspeaker: "All aboard! Next stop Berlin!" Promptly workers grab their tools, create a strangely realistic din which represents a train leaving a station, putting on steam, finally roaring along at breakneck speed. When workers get down to work, they do so to the crash of jazz-band disks. Girls keep time by wiggling their hips on their stools, somehow manage to control their machines. Jack & Heintz associates are also permitted to smoke, receive a dole of free...
...guns and the Honeys took the steam out of the Germans; they withdrew a little. Momentarily our rear was safe. But with the 3rd battalion driven back on our right, our position was still uncertain. The only thing to do, said the Colonel, was to attack, take White House Hill and deprive the Germans of observation. It did not matter that we would be isolated. We had to take the hill...
...firmly believes that the Horse will never supplant Steam...