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Japan's gambit had two essentials: 1) strike at the heart of the main U.S. force and split it from the Allied forces to the East; 2) lay the groundwork for the destruction of the latter...
...broke his neck making a spectacular tackle in a prep-school game). At Princeton he was famed as Intercollegiate diving champion, football cheerleader and one of the prettiest girls in the pony ballet of the 1914-15 Triangle shows. But from the sidelines he studied football objectively, laid the groundwork of a profound pigskin knowledge. That is not the sole reason he was the most sought-after referee in the business...
...They kept the present $40,000 exemption, bore down heaviest on small estates. Still to come were new excise taxes to bring in $905,000,000 more. When the bill is complete, it will be subject to many a change in the House and Senate. But the groundwork had been laid...
Years of cooperative case studies by scientists in many fields,--medicine, psychology, psychiatry, anthropology, and sociology,--will be required for the groundwork of such knowledge, which at present is extremely fragmentary, Dr. Bock asserted...
...even in its present form is Ec A intended to complete the theoretical groundwork of the concentrator. For that purpose the Department offers two basic courses in theory--Ec 2a, a half-year course, and Ec 1, open only to candidates for Honors. While 2a is too dull to be controversial, Ec 1 is a sprightly study in confusion. Discussion is lively and disorderly; agricultural tractors are freely converted into printing presses; and everybody catches on just in time to earn the expected A or B. Anchored only to the graphs on the blackboard, Ec 1 floats freely...