Word: overran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became the finest military school in the U. S. outside of West Point. Its cadets were still chiefly Southerners, although non-Virginians were admitted at a higher tuition. As freshman hazing victims, they got the habit of calling each other Brother Rat.* Last week the Brother Rats overran Lexington, Va., saw two football games, had a whopping good time at the centennial...
Prelude to 1939. For the kind of warfare that Germany is now waging, preparations are twofold, and the first preparation is defense. Without its Westwall, where a major battle was in progress last week (see p. 28), Germany might have been overrun almost as fast as it overran Poland. As soon as he took command of the Army, Brauchitsch began pressing for the completion of the fortifications in the West. Not until the Westwall was completed could Germany strike in the East. Hitler observed: "It will make the French Army a prisoner in France...
...Gladiators' War which followed ranks high among history's forlorner hopes. For this mob of desperate men overran southern Italy for two years, trounced three Roman armies. Not the least of their achievements was the founding of Sun City, a Utopia as fantastic as the Transcendentalists' Brook Farm or Robert Owen's New Harmony...
With Doug Anderson, Gordon Halstead, and Captain Phil Hammond back in shape after being injured in the Dartmouth game, the Crimson stickmen easily overran the more experienced, but poorer-conditioned Club players...
...Balkans, Greece invaded Turkey, occupied Anatolia, was driven back after more than a year of fighting. Rumanian, Czech and Yugoslavian armies overran Hungary, seized livestock, locomotives, battled the Communist Government of Bela...