Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was little glory in store for the few members of the track squad that managed to show up at the A. A. U. championship meet at Dedham yesterday, and the poor shape of the cindermen took its toll, leaving the Crimson with one first, three seconds and a third...
...most obvious answer was that embryo airmen are all thumbs, that inexperience takes toll. But it was not that simple. Graduates of advanced training schools had their troubles...
Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and their military men knew this. They knew the bitter toll of Axis submarines on Allied shipping. They knew, too, that China needs relief and must have it. Knowing these things, they approved this solemn statement...
...basis for this thesis was laid when U.S. Army & Navy land-based planes flew out from Midway and Hawaii to take a terrible toll of Jap carriers (TIME, June 22). Most bombers deliberately ignored the accompanying Jap battleships, went directly for the vulnerable carriers. When the carriers were sunk, the whole huge task force had to turn tail. The thesis was strengthened last week when land-based U.S. Consolidated bombers from Northern Africa hammered the Italian Fleet (see p. 22). And the Army in Alaska is even using land-based torpedo planes to blast the Japs out of Attu...
Although last Saturday and today were set aside for upperclass registration, only 469 undergraduates deigned to report before classes begin, and the toll is expected to be so heavy today that the hours have been extended until eight o'clock...