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...have it appear that the branch of the service which concerns it, and its hero in particular, did the fighting that really won the war. At the climax, Tanker Cochran almost singlehanded drives a wedge through the Siegfried Line, which appears to be an area no deeper than the width of Sunset Boulevard. Amid such juvenile heroics, only the tanks look real, and they expend ammunition with an abandon which should horrify U.S. taxpayers and delight the shoot-'em-up enthusiasts for whom this low-caliber movie was tooled...
...survey itself will include measurements of curb distances of streets under 40 feet in width, as well as areas around city-owned parks and commons. If the traffic board makes a favorable report on these locations the Council may take it under advisement and pass an ordinance to allow all-night parking on one side of these streets...
...opened with a few introductory remarks barely audible above the conversing and chair-scraping on the floor, and an invocation followed. Then the head table underwent a complete change. As the toastmaster read off the names of the dignatories, they rose and, pinpointed by an orange spotlight, walked the width of the stage, down the few steps to the floor, and sat themselves at one of the round tables. Each table on the floor sent one person in return up to the dias. "The backfield should be down there," said the toastmaster, "and the workers up here...
...much for the inhabitants. The University's third largest House is well equipped and well appointed. Its rooms are among the largest in the College but avoid the height that usually accompanies width in Harvard buildings...
...actual practice, the Overseers let the faculty have its way on most questions, even if the board reviews its conclusions. But this statement of the Bradford group emphasizes that the board does not want common practice to decrease the width of its unlimited power...