Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Five hundred members of the American Association of Scientific Workers-among them University of Chicago's famed Professors Arthur Compton and Anton Carlson-petitioned President Roosevelt to keep the U. S. out of war. To the President promptly went counter-petitions, urging help to the Allies, from Albert Einstein, scientists at Princeton, Harvard and California Tech...
...Sargent's non-interventionist argument helps balance the pro-Allied utterances of others. Despite its superficial counter-propaganda value, though, his argumentation represents an undesirable type of support for the non-interventionist cause. Interventionists can shoot such logic full of holes and then triumphantly demand our participation in the War. With many sound arguments to back non-intervention it is both unnecessary and dangerous to adopt Mr. Sargent's views...
...they heard at German headquarters that to counter this success Allied Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin rushed reserves to Namur from Sedan and Montmédy they doubtless shook hands with one another in elation. Soon their map recorded another push. In the rough and wooded Ardennes, German spearheads crushed the Belgian Chasseurs and drove straight at the Maginot Extension below Sedan. They made a dent, the dent was widened to a pocket. The pocket became a bulge when other columns crushed through: below Namur near Dinant, Givet, Mèziéres; above Namur at Gembloux. Flinging power behind power...
...Crushed Counter-Thrust. The Lowlands were not fighting alone. Ninety minutes after receiving their call for help, the Royal Air Force and French Air Corps took wing en masse to harry the oncoming German columns in Belgium and Holland, to bomb the Rhineland, including Essen, heart of the steelmaking Ruhr, in retaliation for German attacks on France's industrial centres...
...afternoon's frolic by netting two points apiece. with the two scores from the sticks of Ed Ed-munds and Jess Willard the grand total was brought to six. Brooks paced the Yale scorers with three tallies to his credit while Dell pushed in the only other Bulldog counter to pass goalie George Hanford...