Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sole authority over all ground, air and naval forces (including the Australian Navy and some remnants of the Dutch Fleet) in the southwest Pacific. It was on orders from the Combined Chiefs of Staff that MacArthur's bombers timed their attacks on the Japs in Rabaul and the upper Solomons with the Navy's offensive ("a very important mission, and one which was planned and approved by the Combined Chiefs of Staff"). For the campaign in the Solomons, General MacArthur was also ordered to turn his Australian naval forces over to the U.S. Navy...
...Prior to that action, the Solomons had all been in MacArthur's command, but to make sure that there was no misunderstanding, the line of demarcation was straightened." (The effect of the straightening was to put the area to be invaded solely under Navy command. MacArthur kept the upper Solomons and Rabaul, where the Navy and Army presumably will have to arrange an understanding...
...theory was supported by Chicago's Dr. Marcel Schein, who has explored the upper atmosphere by recording instruments sent up in balloons. He proposed repeating the ascensions at the equator to find out whether the mesotrons are formed merely by the explosion of the original proton or are formed from earthly atoms by collision. This would throw light on the basic question: what does it take to break up a proton-i.e., how much energy is needed to smash an atom...
...summer of 1893, when the country was in the midst of the free silver debate, President Cleveland secretly had a cancer removed from his upper left jaw. Dr. Erdmann went along. "The yacht Oneida, owned by the late E. C. Benedict, was anchored off the Battery landing. Under cover of darkness the President went aboard, followed by Dr. Joseph Bryant [the operating surgeon]. Major O'Reilly of the Army Medical Corps, a dentist and [three other doctors]. We sailed all night down Long Island Sound, anchored in Plum Gut, and the operation was performed the next morning...
...Bolles' undraftable reserve outfit but the Radcliffe crew that curious College students have seen paddling up and down the upper reaches of the Charles in their slightly leaky Leviathan, the good barge Cutty Sark...