Word: blitzkrieg
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...over again in theme, but some are new in detail. Typical changes: General Motors put more local, authentic scenery in its vast Futurama; Westinghouse's robot has an electrified dog to keep him company, its Microvivarium (kills germs with sterilizing rays) has been renamed Micro-blitzkrieg. Brand-new: Henry Ford's A Thousand Times Neigh, wherein a synthetic horse comes back to report on the evolution of the automobile; Du Font's Nylon factory...
...Goebbels and all.their Nazi craftsmen. Mere curtain-raisers for this show had been their absorption of Austria, their bludgeoning of Czecho-Slovakia, their rape of Poland. Only the prologue was their swallowing of Denmark, their kidnapping of Norway and imprisonment of Sweden. Now came the reil thing-grand-scale Blitzkrieg across Luxembourg, Belgium and The Netherlands with an end view either to conquering the British Isles or smashing France, or both. Adolf Hitler's visionary exaltation at this historic hour vibrated in his order-of-the-day: Soldiers of the West Front! The hour of the decisive fight...
Plans for a medium-size blitzkrieg on Wellesley were formulated last night as the CRIMSON Flotilla held its initial organizational meeting. It was decided that this particular blitzkrieg would be the kind heralded by a violent press attack against the prospective victim; the campaign will begin next week with a flaming denunciation of the mistreatment of Harvard minorities within the Wellesley campus...
...important organizational meeting for all men intending to join the CRIMSON Flotilla to Wellesley is to be held this evening at 7:30 o'clock in the CRIMSON Building. Potential paddlers must attend this meeting if they expect to take part in the projected Charles River blitzkrieg...
...appears likely that the status quo will be maintained in the neutral areas of the Balkans and the Dutch East Indies," stated William L. Langer, Coolidge Professor of History discussing the political implications of the latest German blitzkrieg...