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Estimates. The enemy had at first been grossly underestimated, not only as to numbers but also as to ability. It had never occurred to the British that little men in shorts and gym shoes could actually filter through Malayan jungles. Japanese forces had apparently made contact all the way across the peninsula: even across the central mountain-spine. The middle jungles had previously been the domain of the dwarfish Sakai, a hairy, blow-gunning people who travelers say are so primitive that they have digits only up to two and count: one, two, many, many-many, many-many-many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: New Commander's Job | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...first time in years, MIT's Varsity and Freshman wrestlers swept their annual matches with the Crimson. Saturday afternoon in the Tech gym, the injury-hit Varsity dropped its set of contests, 18 to 16, and the Freshmen lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestling Team Loses Opening Meet to MIT | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...night last week a small group of black-uniformed, tough British soldiers, faces, hands and soft-soled gym shoes appropriately blackened, made a successful hit-&-run raid on the German-held coast of French Normandy, but they took a beating at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Insistent Nuisance | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...schedule will add an extra hour to each day's program, with the new group using the main gym floor at 2 o'clock on Monday Wednesday and Friday, and at 3 o'clock on Tuesday and Thursday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Exercise Program Accepts All Applicants | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...time he was eight when his family moved to Harlem, he used to hang around watching Amateur Joe Louis and local big shots. He never laced on a glove until he was 13-and then only because he was urged to by Trainer George Gainford, who ran a gym in Harlem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boogie-Woogie Bomber | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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