Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of last year's Varsity runners are not in top shape as yet because of a greater than average toll of sickness and injuries. Most notable among them have been the illnesses of Bob Houghton and Joe Scott...
...interests of pre-medical and distribution students and still please the mathematicians and future engineers in its midst, the course which tries to be advanced enough to pre-suppose prep school physics and still be simple enough not to require Math A. Now Defense is taking its toll. The scope of the course will be compressed this year into four-fifths of its former length, and the time gained will be devoted to electronics--enough to tease, but not enough to make a radio operator...
...required so much of German rolling stock that increasing amounts of traffic have had to sneak by sea. The Rotterdam raid was one answer. Fortnight ago the R.A.F. claimed 21 ships of 81,000 tons. Continued raids on German convoys along the invasion coast have added to the toll. In five months it claims to have sunk 300,000 tons of German shipping (not counting an equal tonnage seriously damaged). This is nearly 40% of the German shipping losses for the period, and the biggest R.A.F. raids in shipping have been in the last few weeks. Meanwhile, rail centers...
...flickered out, one by one, for lack of oxygen. The thousands within had grown restive, then in panic had tried to force their way out all at once through the narrow twisting slits in the rock. Last official count of the dead: 461-a full half-season's toll in a single evening...
British losses on the seas doubled in weekly average by jumping to 148,000 tons per week, according to figures recently released. And Nazi claims put the toll for two days at 224,000 tons. These depredations on British commerce mean that our costly lend-lease supplies are going to the bottom of the Atlantic...