Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...active flank of the Central Powers. In World War II, as a neutral flank of both sides, she has suffered no more than nerve strain and high cost of living. Neutrality lessens the danger of real conflict between those of her citizens who are pro-Axis (mostly upper and middle classes) and those who are pro-Ally (mostly army and peasantry). If she remains neutral she will not only avoid carnage and destruction but, whoever wins, she may do well at the peace table...
...Although the upper stories of Maxim Gorki Fort are in our hands and the battle line has moved some 1,400 yards forward. Soviet soldiers deep under ground in the lower stories continue to resist. We have sent negotiators to explain to them that further resistance is useless, but they won't come out. . . ." So it was at every fort and pillbox, on all the stinking, bloody hills around Sevastopol, where the dead rotted in the sun and there were always more Germans and Rumanians to be killed. So it was at Balaklava, eight miles south of the city...
...days, the fall of Sevastopol had been near. But the Russians had been stubborn. German artillery blazed point-blank at the concrete, steel and limestone of Maxim Gorki " Fort. Bombs chewed great craters in its upper levels. At 800 yards, then at 500, the mouths of the fort's 13-in guns yawned at the attackers, so close that the pressure from the blasts crushed tanks and men, and the orange and crimson flames seemed to singe the dead. When the Germans at last swarmed over the fort, a Nazi radio reporter's voice crackled with epic exasperation...
...Java, in l) life jackets where, like kapok, it is six times as buoyant as cork; 2) linings of flying suits, where it is as warm as wool but six times lighter. Next year farmers will be paid to plant free milkweed seed in 50,000 barren acres of upper Michigan...
...addition, all upperclassmen, Juniors and Sophomores as well as Seniors, can try out for the posts of Advertising, and Circulation Managers of the Harvard Album tomorrow night. This meeting will also be held at 7:30 o'clock in the Adams House Upper Common Room...