Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first nobody could be found to play the bells in saradjeff's absence, but soon they began to toll again, this time under the hands of two professor from Columbia and Smith. In addition, Mason Hammond '25, associate professor of Classica and History, displayed his talents on the zvon when special occasions warranted an extra ringing...
...time the unfriendly warm weather returned, Lend-Lease planes were beginning to arrive from the U.S. and England. But from northern Norway and Finland, the Luftwaffe was taking terrific toll of the Allied convoys plying to Murmansk. Much Lend-Lease shipping for Russia had to be rerouted the dismally long way around to the Persian Gulf. The Russians hung on. They dismantled the aircraft factories which lay in the path of the Wehrmacht, moved them far to the rear and reassembled them there...
...week's end the death toll had mounted to 158. Hospitals were treating more than 100 badly burned women and children. Hartford was a city of funerals. Every hearse, every livery car was in constant use; undertakers toiled night & day, and some funeral parlors were holding services at 15-minute intervals. In the late hours Friday, all day Saturday, all day Sunday the slow processions moved through the streets; the quiet crowds gathered, dispersed and gathered again in the cemeteries...
...Cambridge Summer Theatre is by several such actresses and concerns their escapades in trying to get their play produced. Originally produced on Broadway with the autsshors, Elena Miramova and Eugenie Leontovich, in the cast, the transition from the big time to straw hat seems to have taken its toll and proved one thing: that only Mirainova and Leontovich can star in this show...
...Germans exacted as heavy a toll of U.S. lives as they could. They fought like fiends up to the moment of annihilation; then they quit to save their skins. At Fort du Roule they fought among themselves over whether to surrender. Few insisted on dying for the Fi-hrer, although they had been ordered to fight to the death, and many fought their last battle literally with a revolver at their backs. Reported TIME Correspondent Charles Christian Wertenbaker: "The prisoners do not look gallant now; in fact they never were very gallant...