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...gained in a single generation and the slower groundswell of betterment which works through generations. hence the task of the high school is not merely to speed the bright boy to the top. it is at least as much (so far as numbers are concerned, far more) so to widen the horizons of ordinary students that they and, still more, their children will encounter fewer of the obstacles that cramp achievement...
...Germans, while massing most of their strength in front of Berlin, guessed rightly that Marshal Ivan Konev would try to complete his envelopment of Breslau and widen his bridgeheads in the Steinau area. But they guessed wrong about Konev's power. When the blow came it was in huge force-enough to carry through Steinau and on to Liegnitz, 35 miles west of Breslau...
Stettin's fall would mean that the Germans were failing to do what the U.S. and British troops had done in the Ardennes bulge: hold the shoulders of the salient and prevent the attacking tide from spreading beyond control. Stettin's capture would widen Zhukov's Berlin salient to safe proportions...
...Party can in no way be associated with decisions aimed at disarming the people in the face of a Hitlerian fifth column which is left intact and powerfully armed. ... All Communists will act in the sense indicated by the Bureau, and they will do everything in their power to widen and consolidate the union of the French resistance movement...
...secure the beachheads of the Invasion, bombers, rocket guns, ponderous naval cannon will be needed-ihen infantry-borne bazookas, mortars, light assault guns to widen the foothold. Even before the beachheads are finally secured, field artillery will join...