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...hard to take this as anything more than a tough old soldier's morale-stiffening bracer for worse ordeals yet to come. At the time Walker spoke, the line was a sprawling 200-mile loop with the Reds a long way from Pusan on the east coast, too close for comfort on the south. Walker just did not have enough men to stand fast on such a line. On flat terrain a division is normally expected to hold no more than six miles of front; in rugged Korea, where routes of advance are channeled, a division might protect...
...return of the Hunt Ball would be a bracer to tradition-loving England, to county social life and most of all to Moss Bros., London renters of clothing. They succored many a desperate ballgoer whose best tailcoat had been sacrificed to bombs or moths or had been cut into women's suits by coupon-short females...
...made the danger implicit in Chuck's kind-and Tyler's-more edged and more explicit; if he had not skidded into regrettable Sandburg-&-ketchup prose poetry this could have been a much better book. Even as it stands, it is a clear, vivid warning and bracer to that man-in-the-street who makes or breaks democracies, seldom reads books, and is this book's ideal reader...
Coach Hal Union's water bables will wet their flippers in a sort of warm-up tonight when they face Providence Boys Club in the Indoor Athletic Building tank at 8:45 o'clock. The affair is strictly a bracer--before they meet Dartmouth Saturday night, and Princeton and Yale shortly thereafter...
...musicomedy right down the Hollywood groove, Pot o' Gold teams up America's favorite doughboy, James Stewart with prancing Paulette Goddard, Comic Charles Winninger, adds Horace Heidt's muscular orchestra for a bracer, bind them together with the radio program Pot o' Gold ($1,000 to the lucky person who answers the telephone when Bandmaster Heidt calls from the studio...