Word: blitzkrieg
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...morality but his own, utilized all the psychological and ideological weaknesses of bis enemy. Shortage of war materials, poor crop prospects next autumn, all helped spur him now to the quick war, risking all, which he knew favored him more than a war of any length. Only by stalling Blitzkrieg into a trench-digging war, until they grew stronger, did the Allies have much chance...
Sixty seconds after the opening bell, skillful, durable, ring-wise Lou Ambers was on the floor. Without any semblance of an ultimatum. Invader Jenkins began his Blitzkrieg with a sneak-punch right to the chin. In the second round, just to prove that he had a two-armed attack, the challenger bombed the champion again with a left to the jaw. In the third, it was all over. Finishing him off like a miniature Joe Louis, Jenkins blasted the crown off Ambers' whirling head. It was the first time in his eight-year career that Ambers had been knocked...
Last week, while the old country grappled with Hitler's Blitzkrieg, Grand Rapids' happier Dutch went to their prim, pillared Art Gallery to see the biggest collection of Dutch art Grand Rapids had ever seen. With eleven top-flight portraits by Rembrandt and Frans Hals as its central attraction, the exhibition (valued at some $2,000,000) covered 500 years of finely-turned painting, from the squirming, mystical fantasies of 15th-Century Hieronymus Bosch to the geometric designs of 20th-century Piet Mondrian. What made Grand Rapids Dutch almost as proud: the name of practically every artist...
Though Webb Miller did not live to see the story, he, as U. P.'s general European manager, was partly responsible for developing the channels which made it possible for U. P.'s account of the bursting Blitzkrieg to reach the U. S. nearly three hours ahead of other reports.*A timid cub of 19 when he went to Chicago in 1912 from Dowagiac, Mich., Webster Miller got a job on the American's police beat. He cut his first name for euphony, soon hid his timidity. When in 1916 Pershing went into Mexico after Villa, Webb...
Expecting a land blitzkrieg on the following day, Wellesley officials stationed large numbers of plainclothes men about the premises at the Tree Day ceremonies, but for naught...