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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...British regular Army units to defend the homeland consisted of 1,250,000 home troops, plus 350,000 reconditioned survivors of the B. E. F., plus 50,000 newly arrived and sunburned Australians, plus a third contingent of Canadian fliers and replacements, plus 500,000 draftees in training. Some help will come from 500,000 local defense volunteers armed with shotguns and sporting rifles. To the special anti-Blitzkrieg force of old reserves, 500,000 strong, their commander General Sir Edmund Ironside said...
...Mortal Storm (M. G. M.). More than a year ago, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought Phyllis Bottome's The Mortal Storm, a straight-talking best-seller about Jewish persecution in the Third Reich...
From the banks, in the gathering darkness, it looked as if they passed the judges' float in a photo finish. But when the results were run up, Washington was declared the winner (for the third time in five years) by nearly half a length-with Syracuse third, Navy fourth and Princeton, making its debut in the Intercollegiate, eighth and last. To the victorious crew went added glory when it was learned that they had 1) rowed 2½ extra miles to the starting line earlier in the afternoon only to discover that, unbeknown to them, the race had been...
...last week's tournament, run on a point basis like a track meet, the University of Michigan finished first with 26 points. Williams was second with 25, University of Detroit third with 24. Highest individual scorer was Williams' Bill Watson. He won all his club's points: first in spot-landing from 500 ft., second in bomb-dropping, third in spot-landing from...
Last week Carl Sandburg, poet and biographer of Lincoln, went to the oldest and third oldest universities in the U. S. to get honorary degrees. Harvard and Yale greeted him affectionately. Sandburg, wearing a gown but no cap, his white mane and rugged face gleaming in the sun, gave their commencements a flash of homely Americanism, a flash just bright enough to illumine the shadow of European affairs that all but blacked out their gay, traditional ceremonies...