Word: thomas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slain was monocled George Stumme, second in command to Rommel. In the midst of one melee, when a man darted from a crippled Nazi armored car, a British Hussar leaped from his tank and collared him. "I am a general," the captive said severely. He was Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, Commander of the Afrika Korps...
Last week the lean, 54-year-old Ulsterman sat down at dinner in his tent with the captive Thoma. On an oilcloth table cover he showed his rival how the battle had been won. "I told him," Montgomery reported afterward, "that I came to the desert in August. In September I met Rommel. In October I beat...
...sense, the new school will be training super-dentists, in that it is preparing men for certain specialized opportunities in the dental field which can now only be filled after a long and hopelessly clumsy program of medical and dental study. Among those listed b Thoma in a recent interview are plastic surgery, oral surgery, teaching, and research...
...must be emphasized," Thoma pointed out, "that the new school is not intended to be a pattern for the educational methods of American dental schools as a whole, but rather to give men training for individual careers of he sort mentioned...
...Thoma admitted, however, that the new program will probably lead to a certain revision of the curriculum of many dental schools, notably the cutting down in number of secondary departments into which the instruction is pigeon-holed...