Word: diversion
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Out over the sea west of Namsos roared a wide swarm of Germany's deadliest aircraft of all; Junkers Ju.87 dive-bombers ("Stukas"), which had not been given a major workout since they pulverized prostrate Poland. These speedy, relatively small single-motored ships have stout wings to pull them...
A Nazi spokesman continued: "We are simply amazed, ourselves, that the experiment succeeded without so much as a single loss for us. Our Air Force was determined to send wave after wave of power-divers ... to continue the assault even if at first every attacking plane was shot down. In...
Under the present victory system some of the greatest of the Harvard greats would have had to be content with a minor H this year. Coach Ulen might have had two breastrokers as good as Fritz Berizzi, and two divers as outstanding as Rusty Greenhood, but comparative times and scores...
Jim Cook and Don Munding, Yale's brilliant Sophomore divers, ought to sweep first and second against Harvard's George Dana and Chet Sagenkahan, although Dana may conceivably take a second if one of the Elis has an off-day. Both Crimson divers are ending their springboard careers this evening...
It seems likely that these are to be their only satisfactions, for not only does Yale lay claim to stars of the calibre of Howle Johnson, all-around free-styler, and Jim Cook, outstanding diver, but in some events the Elis can produce stars two or three deep. Harvard's...