Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under these conditions in Yakutat, Kodiak, Sitka, Anchorage, from Annette out along Alaska's trunklike Aleutian Islands to Dutch Harbor in Unalaska, men were desperately at work excavating, blasting rock, building a string of fortifications. When the big job was done, the U.S. would have a 2,000-mile flagstone path toward Asia and a natural rampart bristling with man-made ramparts...
...First-string material from a Freshman swimming group of 46 is finally shaping up for the Yardlings meet with M. I. T. Wednesday, December...
...Allies, in espionage as in war, floundered along in traditional forms: spying was essentially military, to be practised by professionals. Unfortunately they had to cope with an enemy which, having revolutionized warfare, revolutionized espionage too. While France's time-honored Deuxième Bureau hopefully trained its second-string Mata Haris, and while Prime Ministers Chamberlain and Baldwin blandly ignored as "exaggerated" (substitute Hitler's "improbable") the catastrophic findings of Britain's brilliant 64, the Germans set in motion "the greatest espionage organization that had ever existed." Typically, Goebbels compiled a blacklist of all the worn...
...honors, Peabody, MacKinney, and Pfister have had a multitude of other honors heaped upon them during the past week. The biggest haul of all was made by the Crimson team when it placed seven men on the United Press all-New England squad-five of them on the first string...
MacKinney, left end; Miller, left tackle; Peabody, left guard; Pfister, right guard; Forte, right end; Franny Lee, second string halfback; and Don McNicol, second string fullback; Tom Gardiner, second string tackle--United Press all-New England eleven...