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...Hitler won the first round of the great battle which began in Norway in April, we have won the second. For without the conquest of Britain, Hitler cannot...
Winthrop threw Dunster all over the ice and came up with an 11 to 0 conquest with Hal Tighhnan leading the attack with three tallies. Kirkland was defeated by Dudley 4 to 1 in a thrilling match. In the final feature of the program Eliot eked out a 4 to 3 win from Lowell. Lindley Burton chalked up all the Belboy markers, while for Eliot, Gordon Lyle passed the goalie twice and Fred Herter's score in the final minutes of play spelled victory for Eliot...
...always full of surprises, and afterwards the explanation of how they occurred gradually leaks out to the outside world. The first surprise of World War II was the German conquest of Poland in 27 days-explained by the inferior Polish materiel and the rashness of the High Command and the German development of Blitzkrieg tactics with tanks and planes. The second was the swift German conquest of Norway-explained by fifth-column activity and the elaborately daring German plan of invasion. The third was the German sweep through the Low Countries and France, an elaboration of Blitzkrieg tactics with Panzer...
...their backs, they all lay on their fronts in blood, all kissed the earth. One dead Roman had his arms around a tree. Young boys lay with their pants still creased. Tin hats were crushed and the heads under them. Farther down, materiel, the proud stuff of conquest, lay around-trucks disguised with a sweet artistry of cypress leaves, trailers burned out and pushed aside, wrecked tanks which had spewed out their metal guts...
...responded with a ridiculously easy win when Harvard's Sophomores succumbed to an attack of the jitters. This time the Handsome Dans of New Haven have an equally disastrous season but are full of fight and determination. The memory of six previous defeats could be wiped out by a conquest of the Harlowmen, and in Ray Anderson and Ted Harrison the Elis have the men to do the trick...