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...West Wall is formidable enough in dragon-toothed antitank traps, in a multiplicity of small cross-firing forts, in a checkered labyrinth of woods and blockhouses, in roads dead-ended at gun range. But it is not designed to stop an enemy in his tracks. It is designed to exhaust an enemy who breaks into it, so that fresh reserves, using the classic Prussian defense by counterattack, can rush in and hurl him back...
...Dragon Seed (Walter Huston, Katharine Hepburn; TIME, July...
...Part dragon, part turtle, and surmounted by a 13 foot shaft, the Chinese dragon monument causes hundreds of passers-by to stop and blink in amazement every day as they approach Widener Library from the west side of the Yard...
...front of the tablet, surmounting the turtle-dragon, is inscribed a message from the Chinese graduates. The letters, surrounded by wolrd carvings of snakes, dragons, flowers, and mythological figures, spell out a statement of congratulations and encouragement for the University, extolling her as a main factor in the growth of the intellectual knowledge of the American people...
...Dragon Seed (Walter Huston, Katharine Hepburn; TIME, July...