Word: frontierisms
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...been interspersed among the German Panzer army, thought they would be allowed to retire gracefully with Rommel's 21st, 15th and 19th light. But even that was denied them. When it became obvious to Rommel that there would be little chance to hold anything between Daba and the frontier, his Panzers dissolved, disintegrated and turned tail, leaving the Italians to fight a rear-guard action...
...Vichy radio reported that Bone, 50 miles west of the frontier fell at 10 o'clock to the swift Allied motorized and armored columns which now were believed very close to the border if some units had not already crossed for the showdown with the Axis...
...Club, a volume of reproductions (Doubleday, Doran; $5) has now been published. The color plates are not as good as they might be but the book gives an excellent cross section of the flaming disasters, idyllic farm scenes, sentimental moralities, spanking race horses, political cartoons, Mississippi steamboats and vigorous frontier scenes which Currier & Ives bequeathed to America...
...FRENCH FRONTIER--Official letters announcing that "You have been designated to work in Germany" have been sent of several hundred thousand unmarried male workers in both occupied and unoccupied France, it was learned today...
...busy, on the Siberian frontier (see p. 24), in the Pacific, in Burma. No offensive army in modern history had ever spread itself so thin. And so in China his bailing slowed down and the water began to rise. Last week it had all but washed the Jap out of the coastal province of Chekiang, most densely populated, most modern and one of the most productive (wheat, beans, rice, silk) provinces of China. It was forcing him out of Kiangsi, west of Chekiang. And farther south he was slowly falling back on Canton. The Jap had his explanations, while China...