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...Peace but a Sword. The new Cabinet, strongest in 20 years, means not peace but a sharper sword. Its one objective is victory, Japanese style. Said Koiso: "I hope to attain our objective in close collaboration with our allies...
...M.P.H. Harper's group figures that the 240,000-mile trip to the moon would take only 48 hours; in the celestial vacuum their ship would attain a speed of 20,000 m.p.h. Their vehicle, probably using liquid oxygen and gasoline for fuel, would be propelled by a series of rockets whose shells could be jettisoned as they were used up; the ship would eventually weigh less than a tenth of its take-off weight. Passengers would be protected against acceleration effects by springy hammocks, against extreme heat & cold by rotation of the ship's outer shell...
...first to reach the foothills of the Carpathians. Behind it burning villages still dotted the plain of Bukovina, which it had crossed after cap turing Cernauti. And above it stood two famed Carpathian passes which Russian armies in one bitter winter of World War I fought to attain, but never succeeded in gaining...
Although the Navy has failed to attain its full chaplain quota, its chaplains have increased from 104 (before Pearl Harbor) to 1,809. Roman Catholic and Jewish quotas are well filled, but the Protestant quota lags. Chief of Army Chaplains William R. Arnold has no such problem. Last week Roman Catholic Chaplain Arnold reported that the Army is "about on schedule" with "approximately 7,000" chaplains in service. Only the Methodist Church is "very short." The Army recently upped all denominational quotas 35% so that chaplaincies left unfilled by one church may be filled by candidates from another church which...
...real American linguistic genius shows in modifications of English words and the coining of new ones, either to cover U.S. situations or to attain grandiloquence. A few language coiners cited...