Word: whereases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The college schedule for this year was laid out on Navy specifications of three 16-week terms a year. Dean Buck arranged for one week in between terms in order to allow a vacation at Christmas, whereas colleges such as Yale get no Christmas week because of ten-day between...
Nazi Advantages. What ails the Red Army does not ail the Wehrmacht. Having survived the big retreat, it has now acquired certain important advantages. Its supply lines from home bases have shrunk by hundreds of miles. Its railroads are in working order, whereas the Russians are still rebuilding theirs. The...
Navy's Problem. ". . . More broadly, the problem is the Navy's. The Navy has had a far less hard-boiled policy toward inefficiency and slowness than the Army. Not a single admiral or captain . . . has been retired or reduced in rank because of inefficiency or incapacity . . . whereas many...
In terms of captured territory, Japan made all its gains south and west of Formosa and the Carolines in less than a year. The Allies, on the other hand, have spent a year sending that little sprout up from Moumea to Guadalcanal and Munda and those tiny arterioles out from...
Block has found that the British like old jokes to which they are sentimentally attached, whereas U.S. troops prefer a new twist. The British do not think insults are funny, whereas U.S. boys do. One of the few common denominators that both sides share is a knowledge of Hollywood and...