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Lamar has also begun instruction in basic Jiu Jitsu tactics, stressing punches outside the regular rules of boxing which can be used to knock out an opponent with one blow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONTACT, COMPETITIVE SPORTS BOOSTED IN EXERCISE PROGRAM | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

Fame, beer, and the exciting career of journalism will knock at the door of every '45 man next Monday night, when the ivy-covered sanctum on Plympton Street opens its doors for its 210th competition and open house...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREE BEER TO FLOW FOR '45 | 7/1/1942 | See Source »

...part of a larger sea & air action. By heavily escorted convoys from Gibraltar and Alexandria, the British tried to get supplies into battered Malta and to the retreating Eighth Army at Tobruk (see p. 20). Italo-German warships, planes, submarines and torpedo boats grabbed their chance, tried to knock out the bulk of Britain's remaining Mediterranean Fleet. Thanks partly to Colonel Halverson's roving bombers, the Axis failed in its main objective. But the British lost heavily, were able to claim only a limited success in getting the convoy through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: U.S. Strikes a Blow | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

...that almost impossible feat, a great war picture that photographs the inner meaning, instead of the outward realism of World War II. Director William Wyler succeeds by the simple device of setting up an ideal middle-class English family in an ideal middle-class home, letting the Nazis knock both down. Result: what the Nazi bombers finally smash is not a house and household but (temporarily) man's hope of happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jun. 29, 1942 | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

...round two air power proved it could knock out carriers as it did in the Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway, against the finest, most resourceful defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR POWER: Offensive Airman | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

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