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Another thing to be remembered before making any rash statements about the rest of the Harvard season, is that Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth are accustomed to blitz the Cadets, generally by more substantial scores than that chalked up by Harvard, and this makes the actual advance of this year's team over last's still a matter for conjecture...
...Crimson is favored to blitz the Cadets, and if all goes well the skaters should have their first League win in three years by tonight. Last winter Harvard set back the Army 5 to 2. Williams, trounced 7 to 1 by the Crimson just after vacation, has edged the Gray and Gold, but otherwise there are no comparative scores...
When the Abbey was hit in the blitz last May, Canon Barry's house in the adjoining cloister was completely burned and he lost all he owned except what he had on. Up all night putting out other fires, he had to go to Oxford next morning to deliver a lecture with nothing but a cassock to hide the battered pair of flannel trousers ("Oxford bags") he had worn firefighting. Afterwards he went into an Oxford shop to buy a more respectable pair of pants. The proprietor looked at him disdainfully: "Don't you realize there...
...British Eighth Army was preparing to clean up its rear. In an assault on Bardia, South African troops went in with the bayonet against Axis units after a preliminary air and tank blitz. According to Cairo, the whole Axis force, "rather than face repetition [of the attack], decided to surrender unconditionally." When the smoke of battle cleared away, the British found themselves with 7,500 Axis prisoners and General Rommel's right-hand man, Chief Administrative Staff Officer Major General Schmidt. British losses were 60 dead, 300 wounded. The British rescued 1,150 of their own troops imprisoned...
...NAVAL BLITZ OPENS WAR 1500 MEET NEWS WITH RIOT Yale News...