Word: triangular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bull-headed onslaught. The actual attack elements were not large bodies of men although heavy reserves followed them. When the French counterattacked once or twice to inflict heavier punishment, the German secondaries stood fast, and their retreating firsts laid "tank asparagus" (sharpened steel rails set at an angle in triangular base plates) which halted French juggernauts. Where the French retreat was continuous, the Germans actually lost contact with them since, so polite was this party, Nazi orders were not to cross the French border. By week's end the French had yielded, the Germans retaken virtually all German territory...
Although their big chief, Hal Wonson, took his scheduled first place, the vaunted Dartmouth harriers came in a poor third as Harvard took first and New Hampshire second place in the annual triangular meet at Cambridge yesterday...
...Dartmouth and New Hampshire are coming to Cambridge for the annual triangular hill-and-dale contest. And although New Hampshire is an unknown quantity and not giving the Crimson over-much worry, Dartmouth is potent medicine...
Although the Varsity times were a trifle slower than in last year's meet, Jaakko was not disappointed with the showing made by his charges, who will race Dartmouth and New Hampshire in a triangular meet next Friday...
Early last Fall the coach was equally as non-committal; his letter carriers defeated Boston University 23-27, took the triangular with New Hampshire and Dartmouth 28-40-57, whipped Holy Cross 21-39, and felled Yale 20-36, Princeton 25-30 to capture the triangular on dual principles 30-40-52. If the boys looked fairly good at the beginning of the season, they were certainly putting up a pretty sight...