Word: mediumly
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...services; we shall be under compulsion to volunteer or be drafted by the Army. Whereas I appreciate the absolute exigency of the situation, I strongly feel that we of this group should obtain some voice in the prosecution of the war and the functioning of the government through the medium of voting. For if we are to go willingly to fight and possibly die for our country and its government why should we not have a voice...
...They conserved their power. They sent medium tanks, among which were U.S. crews getting their first lesson in actual combat, to harass, work on the flanks, blunt the Sturm without meeting it in head-on collision. General Grants operated by U.S. crews waylaid one column of Mark Ills and Mark IVs and routed them. (Said Private Barney Rossi, of Brooklyn: "If we'd had our newest tanks we'd have moidered dem bums...
...effort to fill civilians with the image and meaning of a terrible and magnificent human event, it is as good, and as far short of good enough, as can be expected of producers who underrate their subject, their audience, their moment in history, and the tremendous powers of the medium they work with...
Although there is an adequate liquor supply for a medium term war (warehouses bulge with enough to last four years), some changes in drinking habits are on the way. Both gin and blended whiskies will presently disappear. Straight whiskey alone will remain. A proposed $2-a-gallon Federal tax boost would end the sale of popular dollar-a-pint whiskies, forcing many to drink cheap beer and wine...
...above four types have a capacity of some three tons of bombs each at medium radii of between 500 and 1,000 miles. British heavy and medium bombers-the Stirling, Lancaster, Halifax, Wellington, etc.-have the same average radii and in some cases much larger bomb capacities...