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Just before war broke, Military Expert Liddell Hart published The Defence of Britain, postulating his theorem that in modern warfare, "defense is the best attack." A 3-to-1 superiority in mechanized weapon power is necessary for victory on the attack, and such superiority would be almost impossible to amass in a war between great powers. Many an ardent soldier criticized this thesis. "It was," as its author says, "an offense to their offensive spirit...
...observatory Dr. Prager will join the Milton Bureau, an organization subsidized by the Milton Fund of the University, and the members of which are analyzing the light variations of the two or three thousand brightest variable stars and will before the conclusion of their study amass more than a million observations and record the behavior of these stars on photographs taken since...
...decade the citizens of placid little Le Mars, Iowa (pop. 4,700) have been puzzled by the goings on of tall, statuesque Mrs. Maybelle Trow Knox. Her neighbors knew she was the daughter of a Civil War veteran, who left her enough money to amass a valuable collection of antiques and a reputed fortune in unmounted gems. She queened it over a household composed of her aged mother, Mrs. Lucinda Trow, and her half-cousin and husband, Sumner Knox, a mild little man who had been a mail clerk, later worked in the county relief office...
...never accepting a bequest with any strings attached to it, never accepting any more of a private collection than he wants, and buying "only the best of its kind whether we like it personally or not." By this standard Founder Libbey began and Mr. Godwin has continued to amass one of the best- balanced collections of art in the U. S. now ranking perhaps fifth among the nation's museums...
Seven points behind his center, left winger Austie Harding sank 21 goals and set up 11 scoring plays to amass a total of 32 points. The other members of the Stubbs 1937 outfit were likewise busy and drove in many a goal to run the Crimson total to 101 of goals and 81 assists for a grand total of 182 points for the season...