Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each sport has its relevance to war: the body contact of boxing and football, the sustained muscular strain of wrestling, the teamwork of basketball and soccer, the know-how of tumbling, the muscle-building of labor. But the sports considered most valuable for Navy fledglings are swimming, track and hand-to-hand...
...basis to doubt that Turkey's big hope is still to stay neutral. In World War I Turkey took a violent beating as an active flank of the Central Powers. In World War II, as a neutral flank of both sides, she has suffered no more than nerve strain and high cost of living. Neutrality lessens the danger of real conflict between those of her citizens who are pro-Axis (mostly upper and middle classes) and those who are pro-Ally (mostly army and peasantry). If she remains neutral she will not only avoid carnage and destruction but, whoever...
...know there is a tendency to deride and disparage the bomber effort against Germany. . . . This attack is not going to get weaker, but is going to get continually stronger until, in my view, it will play a perfectly definite part in taking the strain off our Russian ally and in reducing building and construction of submarines and other weapons...
...dedicating TIME wholly to our common cause, the Editors of TIME can and do vow to strain every nerve to do better what they have always aimed to do. The Editors are not unaware of TIME's faults and deficiencies. They are grateful for the constant and progressive criticism of discerning readers. Thanks to them, the Editors hope there may never be a year in which TIME'S standard of performance does not rise...
...lent-leased, the Army and the Navy between them will still have 92,500 combat planes. Army schools will graduate something less than 30,000 pilots this year, must step up their training pace next year. The rub: in the tension of long flights and in the electric strain of combat, pilots tire. Flight surgeons ground them, make them rest. But planes don't get tired. Back from a mission, refueled, rearmed, a plane is ready to fly again. Consequently, every plane needs one or more replacement crews...