Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this ancient print, dated 1260 A.D." was engraved within 400 years of that date, I will cheerfully eat it. It looks as if TIME and the doughty admirals are more familiar with nautical than with personal armor. The print shows full suits of plate armor, unknown in England for more than 100 years after 1260, at least in the form shown. Besides which, the armor bears a distinct family resemblance to the type beloved of Victorian engravers, and seen nowhere on earth but in their limnings. Ten gets you a hundred that the print was engraved between...
...President and Prime Minister had much to discuss. Much had happened since Teheran (December 1943). The swift stab of Allied armor into Germany gave urgency to such decisions as what to do with Germany. Presumably the surrender terms would put Germany, for a long time, under strictest military control. But after that, what? And still to be decided was how "hard" the peace should be.† The story of the charnel house of Maidenek (see FOREIGN NEWS) revived the problem of how high, and how low, responsibility should go for Nazi atrocities...
Outweighing and outperforming the backs, the Crimson linemen have thus far shown themselves to be the strong spot in Lamar's armor. Boasting five members of last year's squad, one veteran college gridman, and one promising civilian Freshman, the forward wall is powerful on both offense and defense...
...week began, it had been question how soon Lieut. General Omar Bradley's speeding Twelfh Army Group could liberate Paris. When Paris all but liberated itself, the question was whether U.S. armor might strike for Reims. At the turn of the week, the Nazis reported U.S. army in Reims and U.S. Flyers reported the Nazia in full, disorganized flight to the Rhine. Field Marshal Günther von Kluge's Seventh Army had been liquidated. His Fifteenth, already bled by its attmep to rescue the Seventh, was outflanked in its positions on the rocket Coast. The first question...
...which had swung in behind the enemy to form the pockets against the Seine where Field Marshal Günther von Kluge's main force had met disaster. To set up that kill, calm, roly-poly General Haislip had managed another impossibility for Patton; he had driven his armor down from Normandy, across to LeMans, up to Alengon -300 miles-in twelve days. Haislip's corps had been the first of Patton's daggers to strike deep. Now Haislip could exploit the retreat he had helped to create...