Word: regularities
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Graduate School of Engineering also announced yesterday that the flying course initiated this year will probably be given next year. Both the summer course and the regular eight months course during the academic winter term will consist of seventy-two hours of ground school and thirty-five hours of flying...
Allied sources estimated-possibly over-estimated-last week that Hitler has 20,000 parachutists in reserve for such an invasion, and 2,000 transport planes capable of ferrying almost one division per hour of regular infantry across the 130-mile median distance from the European to the British lowlands. But the full power of the invading troops-armored equipment and artillery-would have to go in surface transports. British mines threaten these, so before the parachutists take off Phase 2 of the German plan would be minesweeping. Several narrow channels through the minefields might be swept in one dark night...
...which would precede the sea ferries and air-troop transports. Professor Banse long ago recommended Norfolk-Suffolk as a base for the G. E. F. because "the Great Ouse, which flows into the Wash, and a number of streams flowing into the Blackwater estuary . . . make the peninsula into a regular island, which provides an invading army with safe and roomy quarters from which it can threaten London, which is quite close and without natural defenses on that side-and also the industrial Midlands...
...adjutant is Oberleutnant Paul Ettighoffer, a native of Alsace who fled to Germany when his homeland was restored to France. Frank, charming and loquacious, he is a notable Nazi essayist, novelist, poet. An intellectual, he nevertheless volunteered for service in the regular Army, was cited several times for bravery, later transferred to a PK post. His are the most readable dispatches that come to Berlin from the front...
Some twenty courses in arts and sciences, not offered on the regular Harvard College winter curriculum, will be scheduled by the six-week summer session starting July 1, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology and director, announced today...