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...small-scale tactical attack, counterattack or defense. For defense against tanks, General von Eimannsberger devised a pattern of anti-tank guns in three rows-a six, twelve, six defense-covering a front about a mile and a half wide. Such a defense, he figured, would be able to knock out at least 54 tanks before being overcome itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Mr. Eimcmnsberger Wins | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...German army, which at the present time looks to be the class of the world, curiously enough there is none of this feeling of caste. The effect of Nazi doctrines, for some perverted reason, has been to knock the props out from under the old Prussian junker army officer caste. Now the private in the Germany army is made to realize that he is the most privileged citizen in the nation and the equal of anyone. The sergeant in the Nazis' army, unlike the civilian farmer or laborer, can rise from his ranks, and he can do it with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: America Untouchables | 10/16/1941 | See Source »

...tactful double knock aroused Vag from his delicious reverie. He laid aside his copy of the latest New Yorker, and the physics text reposing beneath it in his lap, and lumbered towards the door. Probably another solicitor. His friends didn't tap on the door; they banged on it. Well, he had made short work of that Student Council fellow last night, and he felt prepared to face any attack on his privacy and purse this evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 10/15/1941 | See Source »

Adolf Hitler, with the audacity of a boxer who tells his opponent the exact moment when he plans to put in the knock-out punch, announced last week that his supreme push was coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Bringing Back An Army | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...coming Ramblers from Dudley should knock off the Eliot House team tomorrow, about which little is known. The Elephants boast a "mystery back" but he will have to be plenty good to get through the Dudley line, bolstered by last year's all-House center, Dick Loomis, who transferred from Winthrop...

Author: By Dan H. Fenn, | Title: Deacons Meet Bunnies and Lowell Tackles Winthrop | 10/8/1941 | See Source »

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