Word: lined
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Elimination of Air Marshal Boyd probably meant little or no delay in Britain's follow-up of her great naval coup at Taranto last fortnight, when Fleet Air Arm fliers knocked holes in half of Italy's battle line, or in new British pressure on Marshal Graziani's time-marking expeditionary force in the western desert. Knowing that Graziani had completed an advance camp 15 miles east of Sidi Bārrani, had drilled new water wells and about finished a hard-surface supply road along the coast, British naval units last week hove up and shelled...
With Italy's oversea supply line to Africa more vulnerable than ever after Taranto, all these actions suggested the beginning of a British effort to smother Italy before Germany can help her out in Greece or anywhere else...
Even hardheaded critics, who have long held that sculptural Virtuoso Milles sacrifices purity of line to superficial melodrama, had to admit that few living sculptors could match the sound & fury of his mystical, Norse fairyland in sculpture. Most impressive of the works displayed was his most recent: a surging, scowling winged bronze figure called Monument to Genius (see cut), which cut loose from Milles' polished style and told its story with roughhewn realism...
Yale's Bulldogs ripped through the line like buffaloes. With Hindenlang cutting off tackle, Hart running the ends and Kubie pounding the centre, they piled up three touchdowns in the first half, came back in the second to score another. When the final whistle blew, Yale had swamped Lafayette, 27-to-0, for their fifth victory this season-in the Eastern Lightweight (150-lb.) Football League...
Recovery and Defense. Most nearly unanimous opinion was on how to put the U. S. economy back on its feet. If "certain deterrents" are removed, 85.4% believed that private industry can in time absorb all the unemployed. More surprising was the line-up on what the deterrents are. Only 40% believed them to be all on the Government's side. A clear majority of 58.9% agreed that management is not blameless, that only by a change in business policies combined with a change in Government's attitude can industry absorb the unemployed. In this willingness to share...