Sentence examples for shorten world from inspiring English sources

Winston Churchill observed that the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth helped shorten World War II by at least one year, such were their troop-carrying capacities.

She also tells the story of Alan Turing and others whose pivotal crypto-analytic work unscrambling German codes may have helped shorten World War II.

True enough, the setup is a standard template: an ad hoc group thrown together for a desperate mission that, if successful, can shorten World War II.

Google's foray into the URL shortening world isn't surprising; many platforms are developing their own shorteners in house, such as Digg and Facebook.

On Tuesday, Bletchley Park unveiled for display a letter sent in 1945 by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was later to become president, thanking the British for intelligence that was thought to have shortened World War II by two years.

Lord Sharkey told peers that Turing's work to crack the Enigma code probably turned the course of the Battle of the Atlantic, shortened World War II by two years and may have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

Alan Turing, the British mathematician whose code-breaking is believed to have shortened World War II, was granted a royal pardon today, more than 60 years after being convicted for homosexual behavior and undergoing chemical castration.

His and his colleagues' work at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, is said to have shortened World War 2. The £150,000 memorial is to be located at Rutland Hill, Newmarket - Tutte's hometown.

It has been suggested that a Channel Tunnel could have shortened World War One by two years because the British could have used it to supply their troops more effectively.

Historians estimate that the success of Turing and Bletchley Park's codebreakers shortened World War II by two to four years.

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