Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stonehill, G. C. '46, Winthrop C-15 ELI 2209 Stoutz, L. A. '46, Leverett A-14 TRO 5221 Stratford, R. L. Jr. '46, Leverett A-33 TRO 4222 Straus, G. R. '46, Leverett I-44 KIR 9707 Suskind, G. '45, Eliot A-31 ELI 2241 Swift, E. K. Jr. '46, Leverett C-41 KIR 2107 T Tailleur, I. '46, Leverett A-14 TRO 5221 Thalhofer, J. J. '46, Winthrop F-44 KIR 3728 Thomas, J. S. '45, Dunster B-11 KIR 2208 Tisch, C. B. '46, Lowell F-32 KIR 3985 Towson, E. L. Jr. '46, Lowell...
...weight of Rommel's suddenly concentrated assault was too heavy. The old hands of Rommel's desert army were too smart for freshmen U.S. troops. As the British had done at Knightsbridge, U.S. tanks charged blindly into German ambushes. German 88-mm. cannon blasted them to bits. Swift-moving German columns surrounded and cut them...
...Majesty. In Boston, Judge Paul Swift of Barnstable asked the State legislature for a raise, explained that he was embarrassed whenever he had to give the courthouse janitor an order, because the janitor earned more than...
Corsair was something new in combat aircraft: a big, rugged fighter powered with a 2,000-h.p. engine (Pratt & Whitney). Designed as a carrier craft, it is fast enough for land operations, will outspeed most land-based craft now in combat. Maneuverable, and swift on the climb, it also has plenty of altitude performance, develops its best speed (better than 400 m.p.h.) above 20,000 feet, can fight above...
These tanks of the Sixth Armored Division, churning the sands of their California desert training center, are more proof that the U.S., as tankers say, "has armored equipment to burn." Last week U.S. tanks were burned, literally, by Rommel's swift thrust in Tunisia. The U.S., though it had an abundance of tanks at home, had lost a substantial part of its front-line force in Africa. It would take long weeks, and many a tank safely shipped overseas to build that force up again...