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...disrupt regular U.S. Army troops on maneuver. In Alaska, a similar force worked with Eskimo scouts in the tundra. Another outfit was learning to handle explosives at the U.S. Navy's underwater demolition school in the Virgin Islands. In the Philippines, another detachment on maneuvers against the 2nd Airborne Battle Group of the 503rd Infantry, slipped through the jungle lines, dropped imitation poison in the drinking water, captured trucks, and otherwise raised sufficient havoc to delay the "advance...
After serving as a 2nd lieutenant in the Army on the European theatre from 1942 to 1945, Feula worked for one year and then enrolled at GWU, a part of the large conference which later split up into the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Southern Conference. In his senior year ('51), he received all-conference recognition...
...Battle of Belleau Wood. Actually, Gibbons wrote his flaming story in advance, was wounded by a stray bullet that cost him his left eye, and never saw the battle he described so vividly. Nor did he mention the other 20,000 soldiers of the Army's 2nd Division, who fought just as-bravely as the 8,000 marines in the French forest. There is no question that the marines displayed surpassing gallantry at Belleau Wood and Guadalcanal and Chosin Reservoir and countless other places, but, says McKean, their exploits have been frequently and flagrantly exaggerated. Items...
...weight, Crimson chances will depend on whether or not meet officials will cooperate. Stan Doten and Ted Balley, who finished 2nd and 4th respectively in the Knights of Columbus meet, will have to throw early if they are to make afternoon examinations at Mem Hull. Roger Wilson should also place solidly in this event...
...solution of Clement of Alexandria, who also lived in the 2nd century, was less harsh. Attempting to Christianize the Greek theory of cyclical immortality, he justified the idea of pre-existence (inimical to the Christian doctrine of creation) by maintaining that "we existed before the foundation of the world; because we were destined to be in Him, we preexisted in the sight of God." By "we," Clement meant the elect. Clement borrowed the Platonic idea of the superiority of the soul to the body-"the body tills the ground and hastens to it, but the soul presses...