Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test blackout, as those who have been here before know, is a serious business. It is called by the Army, to test our defenses against bombing raids. Harvard's record in former tests has been excellent. New students can help make this one a success, too, by remembering to turn out all lights before going to bed, keep calm when the sirens sound, keep all lights off unless they have blackout blinds, and not to go out-of-doors...
Rommel's success in the recent Battle of Libya began with a miscalculation. He sent his tanks south in a wide sweep around Bir Hachėim, to outflank the British line, but his intended surprise was detected, his columns were attacked by superior forces. At that point Rommel was worsted and he began to extemporize. While his engineers cut a gap in the heavily-mined Ain el-Gazala line, he distracted the British with various false movements, ringed his gap with protective artillery, then pushed his forces on through...
...food problem, which last year infected every section of society, is no longer a problem. Bumper spring wheat crops and almost certain good fall crops of rice have not only assured maximum essentials for army and civil servants' consumption centers but are likely to leave a surplus. The success of Government price control is seen in the fall of prices of rice and wheat flour since the Dragon Boat Festival (May 5), a period when prices usually rise. The food structure seems guaranteed...
...very British fact. The real, the lasting strength of Britons is in Britain-in the bombed slums of London, the neatly piled rubble of Coventry, the countrysides where U.S. soldiers are now breathing the air of England. On the record of World War II, the one great British success has been in the defense of Britain. It is easy to say-as many people said last week-that the British lack the offensive spirit. It is fairer and more realistic to say that 20th-century Britons fight best when home is the stake...
...sometimes, when much damage has been done, it is necessary to cut out the section of damaged gut, patch the whole ends together again. As much as six feet of small intestine, he said, "have been removed with success." Chiefly responsible for the great reduction in mortality are: 1) the liberal use of sulfa drugs, both sprinkled on the wounds and taken internally; 2) massive blood transfusions-in some cases as much as eleven pints-which make possible bolder operations than were risked in World...