Word: eight-point
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...idea that World War II can be won by strategy-his preferred strategy being to arm and feed Great Britain, Russia, China, while keeping the U.S. "short of war"-turned his attention to Congress, put his critics on the spot. Said he in reporting his and Churchill's eight-point program: "It is difficult to oppose in any major particular without automatically admitting a willingness to accept compromise with Naziism; or to agree to a world peace which would give to Naziism domination over large numbers of conquered nations...
...though the strategy of the eight-point landing was sound, Japan had made a tactical error. Opposed to her small landing parties, China had some 200,000 crack troops in the south...
...present all these potential squadmen have gone down hill because of a lack of regular, supervised practice. This was vividly evidenced the other day, when the Freshmen walked over the Jayvees in an informal game, winning by an eight-point margin...
...consultant for American Type Founders Co. Gone were the old-fashioned banked and pyramided headlines. Gone was the seven-point body type at which faithful Times readers had squinted for 26 years. New heads were short, simple sentences split up into two or three lines. New body type was eight-point Paragon on nine-point base, a light, readable letter with plenty of space between the lines...
...lightning. Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg kept mum in Washington, but photographs of the Vandenberg home were beginning to circulate through the Press. In Columbus, Old Guardsman Ogden L. Mills pounded away at "demoralized" New Deal spending. In Manhattan, Representative Hamilton ("Ham") Fish Jr. hazarded an eight-point landing on the Republican platform. In Sacramento, Governor Frank Merriam announced that he was not opposing friends' efforts on his behalf. In Chicago, Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden opened up campaign headquarters...