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...forces carried out everywhere they landed. Most of their armored, snub-nosed barges from the convoys came, not to the port itself, but to the sandy beaches a few miles from the city. There they disgorged Rangers (U.S. commandomen) for initial landings, infantry, artillery and tanks to consolidate and widen the landings. Their purposes were to pincer the city itself, and to seize Blida and Maison-Blanche, Algiers' two main airdromes...
...article in the Atlantic Monthly, under the heading of "The Use of Our Colleges in Time of War," puts forth his call for federal subsidies for college students in order to "widen the base for officer material...
That was not all there was in Eritrea to make Italian eyes widen. When it was decided last year to set up bases there for Lend-Lease material, U.S. laborers, recruited in New York, were rushed to the fever-ridden little country on the Red Sea. To escape the heat of the lowlands, where the temperature sometimes reaches 120°, they were housed 4,000 feet above sea level on the inland plateau and transported every day to the sweltering seacoast...
...force with seagoing auxiliaries -will have the major say in world affairs. Then the U.S. will no longer be the nation of the county fair and the little red schoolhouse. It will be the nation that has the power by yea or nay to open the seas and widen economic frontiers to all peaceful peoples, to close them as readily to aggressors...
Entirely apart from future rationing, the number of tutors at present is very scarce. Intended, among other things, to widen the student's acquaintance with older, more experienced men interested in the same academic field, the tutorial system putters along on the energy of about one-ninth of the Faculty. And most of the tutors are young instructors who in normal times must worry about their Ph.D.'s, and to whom the draft boards now beckon. The only way to keep the tutorial system off the war-time casualty list is to expand it to include more teachers, especially those...