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...pleasing vitamin in music is consonance, as in such agreeable harmonies as the standard Do Mi Sol Do. When composers wish to ennoble, invigorate or inspire their listeners (as for example in the opening bars of the Star-Spangled Banner) they depend heavily on consonances. An upsetting virus in music is dissonance, a combination of sounds full of sonorous tension which may produce anything from vague impatience to acute aural distress. When composers wish to disturb their listeners, make them weep, sigh or foam at the mouth, they do it with dissonances...
...Southern Bosnia the towns of Kupres and Focha changed hands again as General Draja Mihailovich's Chetniks fought to improve their positions for winter. Mi-hailovich took the towns at a cost of between 600 and 900 casualties...
...this was good news to the Chinese. So were reports of oil discoveries "beyond expectations" in Kansu province and of economic, political and military cooperation which would have pleased Sun Yatsen. China's first great republican leader envisioned the Northwest's potentially rich 1,950,754 sq. mi. (pop. 21,000,000) as a new home for millions of Chinese from overpopulated areas. His San Min Chu I (principles of free government) have been brought by war to southern provinces once considered a political hinterland. So now night the northwest provinces be woven into the pattern of Chinese...
After twelve months the Germans had occupied about 7% (some 580,000 sq. mi.) of Russia's land, but they had not conquered Russia. They had destroyed or captured upwards of 4,500,000 Red soldiers, 15,000 Red tanks, 9,000 Red planes. But they had not destroyed the Red Army. German artillerymen photographed Leningrad through their telescopes. But they had not captured Leningrad, with its mastery of the Baltic, its way to Murmansk and the Murmansk supply route. The swastika flew within 115 miles of Moscow. But the Germans had not tak en the U.S.S.R...
...planes and pilots littered the sea. U.S. fighters and bombers, pursuing the rest, found the Japanese main force. U.S. Navy carriers with their fighters, scout bombers and torpedo planes closed in for the kill. More Army bombers rose from Midway. They were not all. Tiny (1½-sq. mi.) Midway's limited airfield space was no limit on the total air strength which the Army could throw into the battle...