Word: digged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excellent only because an active defense had lured the Germans on and tempted them to abandon partially the Schlieffen plan. When he cites the Battle of Marathon he forgets that it is the classic example of the "double envelopment," a military term meaning that you let the enemy dig his own grave and then shovel him in. One cannot discard the defense as valueless with a scoff and a biting remark. Colonel Kernan disregards the two most sensational defenses of modern times--those of Russia in 1812 and 1941--which did not develop into counter-attacks until the time...
...Cambridge archeologist, Horatio Smith (Leslie Howard) is welcomed to the Germany of 1939; he has a Nazi commission to dig for traces of an Aryan civilization. In the process of proving that the progress of civilization depends on a few gifted people (mostly scientists, naturally), he excavates 20-odd live German scientists out from under the Gestapo noses...
...enough to offer war courses. But it is the basic liberal arts courses that must be enforced. Perhaps that is what President Conant meant when he said: "During the war we might concentrate our educational efforts not so much on those students who wish to dig deeply into one subject, but rather on those who seek a more general education...
...short stories Trend most nearly approaches the undergraduate literary norm. Bowden Broadwater's "Several Blots on the Family Escutcheon" will be familiar to all Advocate readers, and the criticisms for unconvincing artificiality of mood to which it is subject may also be leveled at "Doncha Wanna Dig, Chillun" by Dartmouth's Edward Rasmussen. John Barnes' "But the Bullets Were Real" is a more original and evocative attempt. As a study of a sensitive young couple faced with the draft the tale deals with an important youth problem, while its experiment in form, though not always properly controlled, fits...
...doctors probe wounds for bullets and shell fragments, pay the Red Cross $5 every time they cannot find any. They also bet on the type of fragments they will dig out of wounds. Among their findings (all made in the U.S.): parts of Ford automobiles; nuts & bolts. Out of one soldier's body came a Singer sewing machine screwdriver. One night when the doctors and nurses had amputations on every table, they donated their own blood...