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...Glorious Apollo...
...Axis Pact of a year ago brought the militarists still more kudos. As if to symbolize the militarists' ten-year rise to power, their greatest single opponent, the Emperor's most respected personal adviser, Elder Statesman Prince Kimmochi Saionji, died at 91. The Army topped off its glorious decade with its Indo-China grab...
...next year General Itagaki was salvaged from a "glorious" defeat in China and became War Minister. He called the faithful Tojo to be Vice Minister. In this office The Razor stropped himself so viciously on munitions capitalists whom his chiefs wanted given subtle handling that he was kicked upstairs to be Director General of Army Aviation Instruction. In 1939 he became Chief of the Air Force...
Navy's All - American "Bullet Bill" Busik turned out to be just another blank cartridge Saturday afternoon as Harvard's great line tightened, turned back the vaunted "two-occan" attack, and held on long enough to score a "glorious upset win" over the Middies, 0 to 0, before a Stadium crowd...
...leaves. This final unmasking reveals the dull brown tannins, which are chemically so stable that they remain till the leaf rots to powder. Unlike flower pigments, which have the vital function of attracting pollen-spreading insects and birds, autumn's colorful foliage is just a meaningless, glorious show...