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...French, on the other hand, Le Corbeiller pointed out, had a glorious past, a past which blinded them to the future. They did not depend on their technique, they didn't care about industry, they lived for their art and literature. Even today the French do not realize their need for technique, in fact they censure technique...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Corbeiller Explains Rapid Fall of France | 10/14/1942 | See Source »

...hundred and fifty years of history and tradition, plus a reputation as one very powerful football team are behind the William & Mary squad as they roll into South Station this morning. The second oldest college in the United States dates back to the Glorious Revolution, but its 1942 eleven is more interested in propects for the best gridiron season of its brandy-hung history...

Author: By Armand SCHWAB Jr., | Title: Massacres and Ministers Fill 250 Years of W & M History | 10/10/1942 | See Source »

Tonight Red troops poured through en route to the front. The old man and all other Cossack cottagers retired, planning how nothing must be left for the enemy except a scorched waste. Such is the decision of the Kuban Cossacks, the glorious descendants of the Cossacks of Zaporozhye Sech, who also burned and destroyed everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: COME, GRANDSON, LET US CUT DOWN THE ORCHARD. | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...same red blood that coursed the veins of the men who beat the flower of the German Army at Belleau Wood, St. Mihiel and the Argonne, and broke the Hindenburg Line, flows swiftly, too, through the veins of the heroes of the glorious victories of the Coral Sea and Midway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: America Is Winning | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...Stage. In Moscow the visiting diplomatic and military missions were dined and vodkaed at an elaborate dinner in the National Hotel. Toasts went round to "Our Glorious Red Army . . . Our Glorious Allies . . . Our Glorious Leader, Tovarish Stalin." If Churchill and Bullitt were in Moscow, they, too, were toasted. It was no secret that Ambassador Standley whiled away his spare time hitting golf balls against a backyard screen. General Bradley, abed with mild grippe, was unable to attend Thursday's ballet with Brigadier

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: In the Kremlin | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

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