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...Catholic Chaplain John A. Wilson had a narrow squeak when, riding the same road, he saw men waving their arms and stopped his car, jumping out. Wilson hit a ditch, saw dive-bombers a few seconds later score nearly a direct hit, demolishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Chaplains in Bataan | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

Wood-chopping and ditch-digging will be the lot of Yale students when they appear for compulsory athletics under the new plan to make the Elis strong enough for the army...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Will Chop Wood And Scale Walls to Get Tough | 2/19/1942 | See Source »

Bingham revealed that four tennis courts near Dillon Field House would be converted into basketball courts. Facilities for outdoor boxing will be added and volleyball courts will be constructed at Soldiers Field. Plans also call for a six-foot fence to be constructed with a ditch on one side of it. Students will be taught to scale the fence and jump the ditch in simulation of actual combat conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MILITARY TRAINING ONLY HALF OF NEW PROGRAM | 2/13/1942 | See Source »

Last week the only U.S. citizen known to have escaped from fallen Hong Kong told how a hell-for-leather, 6 ft.-2 in. San Francisco chiropractor played hob with Japanese nerves in a last-ditch fight to postpone the Crown Colony's collapse, leaving little or nothing to nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: What Hong Kong Needed | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...billy clubs, and then assigning white MP's with guns to patrol colored districs. There is nothing realistic in the policy of white commanders, who have agreed to comply with the demands of local authorities. In one instance townspeople and state police forced colored troops to walk in the ditch beside the main highway and to break camp in the middle of the night because of its proximity to the city limits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salt in the Wound | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

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