Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cartographer Richard Edes Harrison-now expanded to thirteen feet across to give you a striking illusion of being able to look down on the world from a plane high in the super-stratosphere. And other exhibits will change from month to month to try to keep pace with the swift march of this year's news...
...right angle to the British, held quiet. The Fifth was waiting for its new commander, rasp-voiced Texan Lieut. General Lucian King Truscott Jr., who last week succeeded Lieut. General Mark Clark, now commander of the Allied armies in Italy. But a new commander would not necessarily mean a swift drive to the north. Mark Clark's armies were short of men; the Allied push, and almost all of its European pushing power, was in France...
...moment, at least, China was spared the ultimate in disaster. The Japanese drive northwest into the desolate province of Kweichow last week faltered, then ebbed back into neighboring Kwangsi. Either the enemy's swift advance had outrun its supply, or China had somehow found new strength to stop the drive that was designed to cut Chungking off, ultimately take...
...Harvard's intercollegiate football season ran as usual, Coach Harlow receiving a Navy commission at its end. It was still Fair Harvard, but the transition to war was making swift advances and most undergraduates were living on borrowed time...
...same press conference, Eisenhower implied that by now the Germans were virtually committed to fight the last western battle in front of the Rhine. His reasoning: Allied air power can destroy the river bridges behind them at any time. The steep-banked, swift-running Rhine is higher now than at any time except in early summer. Between Cologne and Dusseldorf the river is 380 yds. wide. To get back across it with the bridges down would be, for the Germans, "almost a naval operation." The Germans know this, but they are still sending reinforcements westward across the Rhine...