Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether this was fact or propaganda, there was no doubt about the crippling effect of the U-boat campaign. The Associated Press's unofficial tally of Allied shipping losses in the western Atlantic alone reached 587 this week.* The success of anti-U-boat operations, about which the Navy kept mum, might be judged in part by the success the Japanese have had against U.S. submarines about which the Navy had more to say. Against a record of hits on more than 150 Jap vessels, only three U.S. submarines have been reported overdue and presumably lost...
...that a train had traversed the damaged section of track half an hour after it was blown up. The Japanese offered various explanations and were even reported to have served up for internal consumption the following: the Japanese engineer, seeing the damage, appealed to the God-Emperor with such success that the train rose right up off the tracks, flew across the debris and came down safely on the other side...
...these the Army is proud. But it is proudest of its OCS graduates. It was on its enlisted soldiers, volunteers and draftees that the growing Army had to lean for its supply of younger officers. The success of the taut training they absorbed can be proved to old soldiers by their progress. One is already a lieutenant colonel, seven are majors, 397 are captains...
Although several plans have been proposed with the purpose of bringing the June and September Yardlings into contact with each other, none have met with great success. Among the activities which have been held for the first-year men was a dance last summer and the Radcliffe teas last fall...
Members of the College station scratched their heads. Sex, they felt, can be mighty important in college broadcasting. For proof they pointed to the success of the Corio and "What's Wrong with Harvardmen?" interviews. Perhaps their logic was faulty, but they stuck to their convictions...