Word: bowmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ages in the midst of modern Europe, and it would hardly dare to attack the United States with the military resources at its command: a standing army of 20 mailclad bowmen...
...course the note turns out to be no joke, and one fine sunny day, during an air-raid drill, an ocean-going tug chugs past the Statue of Liberty, and 20 mailclad bowmen make a beachhead in lower Manhattan. They move inland through deserted streets and occupy a scientific institute-where, as it happens, Dr. Alfred Kokintz, the great physicist, is putting the final touches to the Q-bomb, a football-shaped object that will erase an area of 2,000,000 square miles if it ever explodes. The bowmen capture the bomb and the man who made it, take...
...profession-5The above scene is from a dress rehearsal of the 1909 production of Schiller's "Joan of Arc." The star, Maude Adams, is shown at left center. Presented in the Stadium under the auspices of the German Department, this production had a supporting cast of 1,500 calvarymen, bowmen and soldiers and attracted a crowd of over...