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Besides bringing with it all those autumnal beauties characteristic of New England, October brought to the Radar School the vanguard of a feminine invasion in the persons of Ensigns Quadland, Myers, Paulsen and Schwerin, W-V(S) USNR, or for those unfamiliar with Navy symbols--WAVES.
The Red Army has its woes too. Its supply lines are overextended, its highways blanketed with mud, its railroads torn up by the methodical Germans. Its rear is hungry and devastated. The winter, only two months away, presents a harsh problem in logistics. But in the fortnight of fighting weather...
>In Berlin, the German High Command pointed up the prospects with an ecstatic communique: "In the snowstorms of the North Atlantic, the glaring sun of the Equator and the autumnal storms at the Cape of Good Hope, German submarines have sunk in the last five days, in fierce, tenacious fighting...
At 61, the author of Prejudices, Notes on Democracy, In Defense of Women, The American Language, etc., is aware that he has entered what he calls his "autumnal-years." He is not the riproaring Mencken of the 1920s, when his name was on the lips of every undergraduate literatus, when...
The Russians printed their news as they made it, setting type in the fields (see cut, p. 20). One Soviet newsman, Eugene Petroff, who also serves the North American Newspaper Alliance, reported that in autumnal forests and still summery fields the Russians were "fiercely beating the Germans on a firm...