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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French high command made known that on Sept. 29, seeing that Poland was prostrate and that pressure at the West-wall could not possibly revive her, they decided to alter their basic war plan from offensive to defensive. Unknown to the Germans they prepared a line of resistance behind a line of surveillance. When the German advance came last week, only French outposts remained. These withdrew slowly, leading the waves of German troops into a zone of red-hot cross-fire from machine guns and artillery. Of some 100,000 Germans involved, the French guessed they killed five to seven...
Into a war so gingerly regarded from the start by almost every mature writer of Britain, many writers were going while yet immature and unknown. Nobody could foresee who might survive it, nor what writing might come of it. Yet there were many to remember Wilfred Owen, the round-faced, silent young officer who was killed a week before the Armistice in 1918, and the few terrible poems published after his death...
...Dartmouth squad is still an unknown quantity but threatens to give the Lamarmen a tough battle...
...Dartmouth and New Hampshire are coming to Cambridge for the annual triangular hill-and-dale contest. And although New Hampshire is an unknown quantity and not giving the Crimson over-much worry, Dartmouth is potent medicine...
...asked him to cover a post-season football game between Texas A. & M. and Centre College. The Post wanted 500 words. That day the great Bo McMillin was married, his bride sat wrapped in a blanket on the players' bench with a corsage pinned to her shoulder, and unknown A. & M. licked Centre 18-6. Bill started sending in his story, paused after 1,500 soulful words to ask whether they wanted him to stop. Back came the Post's answer: "Pour it on." So Bill sent another 1,500 words...