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...days later, the survivors returned with reinforcements to retake Changteh. The Japs seized or burned the rice stores, retreated when it was obvious that the Chinese lines would only bend, not break. Once again Chinese resistance and Jap half measures had disposed of a threat to U.S. air bases in central China, a threat which might have been serious if the Japs had chosen to bring enough strength against the ill-fed, ill-equipped Chinese...
...sculpture. His painter's mind was increasingly and almost ruinously engaged by intellectual curiosity about the physical world. Leonardo ended by turning from art to science. His very painting was a scientific search-the plants and rocks in the background of the Portrait of Ginevra de' Bend seem to have been executed by a botanist and a geologist. As he began to satisfy himself with technical improvements in such matters as perspective and chiaroscuro, he gradually lost interest in tirt for art's sake...
...Berlin reported a major break-through near Krivoi Rog by a Russian army of 500,000. Such a thrust would end the last German resistance within the Dnieper bend...
...Krivoi Rog, the Wehrmacht continued its desperate, costly-and thus far successful-struggle to keep open an escape corridor for the forces still within the Dnieper bend...
...Feet apart, bend your knees and rest your weight on the balls of your feet...