Word: tip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the northwestern tip of Samar, only 15 miles across San Bernardino Strait, lies Luzon, largest of the Philippine Islands, site of Manila, Bataan and Corregidor. When and if MacArthur chose to cross over to Luzon, he was not likely to find the Japanese the pushovers they were on Leyte. But the reconquest of the Philippines last week seemed much less of a problem than it had the day before his troops poured ashore at Leyte...
...battlefield-achieved with war's newest weapon. It was final proof that if he could control the sea north of New Guinea with air power and the help of the U.S. navy, he need not plow the 1,500 miles through New Guinea's jungle to the tip and the jump-off for the Philippines...
Russia's territorial demands had increased since the spring negotiations. Instead of the tip of the Ribachi Peninsula, commanding the approach to far-northern Petsamo, the Russians had now taken Petsamo itself and enough surrounding territory to cut off Finland from the Arctic, restore the Tsarist frontier with Norway. Instead of their lease on Hangö, commanding the Gulf of Finland, Russia took a 50-year lease on the Porkkala Peninsula for a naval base. This brought the Russians within twelve miles of Helsinki. Russia also got back Viipuri, Finland's fourth biggest city. Parts of timber-rich...
...project-The Living Hall of Washington-was sponsored by Willard Monroe Kiplinger, publisher of the businessmen's weekly tip sheet, the Kiplinger Washington Letter. The statues are one-third life size, cast in bronze. They have been given to Washington's venerable Smithsonian Institution for permanent public exhibition. Some other sitters: Henry Wallace, Harlan F. Stone, George Marshall, Harry Hopkins, Francis Biddle, Cordell Hull, Henry L. Stimson, Walter Lippmann, John L. Lewis, Donald Nelson. Says Sponsor Kiplinger: "The purpose is primarily historical . . . history is made by men. What did the men look like? How did they stand? What...
Lawyer's Legend. New York was more aristocratic, less intellectual. But the little city (pop. 60,000 in 1800) of yellow brick buildings and whitewashed brick houses at the tip of Manhattan Island was already friendly to painters and actors. Washington Irving, aged 17 in 1800, used to climb out the bedroom window of his home on William Street, after family prayers at night, to sneak to the theater...