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...Were Home." They needed it. Even small wars are not complete without bungles. Brigadier General J. Ford Kent managed to maneuver three regiments, including Private Post and his outfit, onto a single cowpath over which a U.S. observation balloon served as a perfect marker for Spanish firepower. More than 400 men were killed or wounded at "Bloody Ford," and at one point Private Post found himself slipping on mud "made by the blood of the dead and wounded." When the men got to San Juan Hill, they rushed up as if it were "a football field when the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quaint Little Hell | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

Answer to a Prayer. A few months later Billy was ordained a minister by the St. Johns Baptist Association of Northern Florida. He went on to preach "at every cowpath and wagon track in Florida." gained a strong voice, expanded confidence and got a scholarship to Wheaton College near Chicago. There he collected an A.B. in anthropology, an unusual major for a man who still rejects the theory of evolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Evangelist | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

Most U.S. cities, growing up haphazardly from cowpath to Main Street, needed 100 years or more before their population reached the 60,000 mark. But in Bucks County, Pa., a new city for 60,000 people is rising dramatically from 5,000 acres that were wood lot and farmland less than a year ago. By 1954's end, if all goes according to plan, Levittown, Pa. will be a complete community, ranking in size with such older Quaker State sisters as Bethlehem, York, Lancaster, Johnstown and Chester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: For 60,000 People | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Officer Fitzgerald was not the only man to wander down the wrong tunnel in the steam tunnel maze; his rescuers themselves had at one time fallen behind and temporarily lost their way. Like the layout of University buildings themselves, the tunnels were designed on a cowpath basis...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Circling the Square | 11/14/1951 | See Source »

After the Great Exodus of the spring of '43 (when the future was viewed in terms of khaki and navy blue and what-the-hell), it got so quiet in the, little redbrick building on the one-way cowpath, 14 Plympton Street, you could hear a split-infinitive drop. Most of the Crimeds had gone off to the wars, leaving behind them something they'd started as a weekly to serve naval and military personnel, something they now hoped whole be able to publish the news of the whole University twice a week; something called the Harvard Service News...

Author: By James G. and Trager Jr., S | Title: Parasol in Hand, Service News, Teetered Down Editorial High Wire in Search for Will O' the Wisp Impartiality | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

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