Word: strung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chairs for Class Day, although 4,000 were never unfolded; 2) tradition dictated that bay trees must adorn Class Day dances, although the only bay trees available, always rented from the same company, had become "mangy" from age, storms and costly trips to & from Cambridge; 3) Japanese lanterns were strung up at an annual cost of $1,000 long after the arrival of daylight saving made them unnecessary. Morse cut Class Day and Commencement chair costs from...
...Southwest's No. 1 utilitycoon, Arkansas's wealthiest citizen; at his summer home on Lake Catherine near Hot Springs, Ark. Son of a farmer-preacher, he had saved $156 by the time he was 26, put it into a partnership with a village postmaster and strung a telephone line from Arkansas into neighboring Louisiana. He built it into a four-State line and sold it nine years later to Bell Telephone for $1,500,000. He used the money to organize Arkansas Power & Light, built that into a $71,000,000 colossus. Meantime he had acquired large interests...
Moving them up was no easy job Cloudbursts of both rain and bombs had played havoc with the 400 miles of communications the Germans had now strung out behind them and 2,000 miles from flank to flank. Mechanized equipment was getting just as tired as human equipment; it also had to be replaced...
Singeing Adolf's Whiskers. As the Battles of Germany and Russia strung on, the British even began talking seriously of invading the Continent. Tom Wintringham, Spain-trained guerrilla artist who recently resigned his instructorship in the Home Guard because he considered the War Office too stodgy, wrote: "The British Army wants action. . . . We should hit Hitler now that he is busy." The News Chronicle headlined: TOO QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. The careful New Statesman and Nation editorialized: "If the invasion of the Continent is ever to be possible, today, when Germany's best fighters and bombers...
Sunday 5 a.m. we arrived at our jumping-off point. . . . Try and sleep and find it impossible and then the news comes through that our plans have to be changed. The road to El Wak is mined and the Banda are strung in front of the fort in very large numbers and it's our job with A Company in front to mop them...