Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sample episode: the time is Oct. 23, 1942. The place is a stretch of desert before El Alamein. Two armies face each other which for two months have been recreating themselves in manpower and in material. The last preparations for combat intensify, and grow quiet. In blank black, a calm voice speaks: At Zero-minus-thirty the barrage begins. At the same moment the sappers will move for ward. . . . At 10 o'clock the infantry will advance. In quiet and darkness a single file of helmeted sappers goes up the line; next, bayonet-bearing infantry, slowly, then faster. These...
Annihilation Amplified. Director MacDonald screens this night barrage by projecting its actual gun flashes while amplifying such staggering noise, for such a long film stretch (four and a half minutes) that few in any audience will not wish to get out of it. It is meant to be almost unbearable, and is. By placement, timing and delivery, this is also the most intelligent passage in the picture...
Readers may feel that the problem of American security in the Pacific has implications that stretch much farther than the mere seizure of bases, and cannot be decided on an emotional belief in permanent enmities...
Naval Science puts its members through a four year course, ordinarily, with a commission at the end. Designed to produce deck officers, the course emphasizes seamanship, navigation, gunnery, and communications. Students enroll for a four year stretch, and the present crop will all finish their college courses and must got degrees before they can be commissioned, although acceleration will made this far lees than a four year term for many...
...ground begins to thaw, and the ico on the Charles breaks up, House teams enter the spring season, the home stretch in their race for the Straus Trophy designating supremacy in House athletics. Right now, Leverett seems to have a tight grasp on the cup, holding a lead of about 115 points over Winthrop, with Adams holding third place. By the end of the winter season, the lead will probably have increased to about...