Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Captain Swift: Artist used ¼inch brush and cross blown up before printing...
...Eichelberger was sent to rescue another bogged-down force, again superseded a classmate (Major General Horace H. Fuller), straightened out the situation with less trouble than he had had at Buna. It was a clever job of tactics-no frontal assaults, much fast-stepping, cleverly conceived flank movement, a swift securing of the three vital Biak airfields. For such imaginative tactics MacArthur made Eichelberger commander of the new Eighth Army...
Hustling, 37-year-old Frederick L. Hovde first caught Purdue's eye as the slight (155 Ibs.), swift Minnesota quarterback who slid through the holes made by grid-great Bronko Nagurski, to become the Big Ten's top scorer in 1928. He went on to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, became the third American ever to make the Rugby varsity. There he caught the eye of Alan Valentine, his predecessor as U.S. man on the Oxford varsity. Hovde went back to the University of Minnesota, joined its faculty. After Valentine became president of the University of Rochester...
...Dean's office committee selections were immediately approved by the Emergency Council. This action drew swift and vociferous protest from almost all extra-curricular leaders...
Four months before Pearl Harbor, he had been adjusting washers on the final assembly line, when the foreman switched him to a new line-hydraulic wheel retractors for aircraft. The swift scrambling of the plant's orderly insides had made Emil blink. His work week had jumped from 40 to 84 hours. Emil had hardly been able to see the fat overtime pay checks. But as the plant clanked out of its surprise, the hours came back to a reasonable 48, and Emil was again earning his usual dollar an hour, plus time and a half...