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...that victory is possible. Morally I am certain that we shall gain it." The Author. Born in 1895, Capt. Basil Henry Liddell Hart, entered the British Army in 1914 as a Cambridge University Candidate; at 20 he commanded a battalion. He invented the English Battle Drill System (1917); the Expanding Torrent method of attack, officially adopted since the War. Badly wounded, he stayed in the army until 1927. As military correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, Military Editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, his theories of future warfare, army mechanization have been read, inwardly digested by Europe's leading Ministries...
...University of Michigan Hospital at Ann Arbor, Virgil Bailey. 30. farmer, last week realized what an uncommonly deep breath he had taken five years before. At that time he had inhaled while in a dental chair. The dentist was changing a burr in his tooth drill. The burr slipped from the dentist's fingers, disappeared. The dentist surmised that it fell in some fold of his or Virgil Bailey's clothes, hunted no further. But Virgil Bailey had inhaled the burr. Lately deep-breathing Mr. Bailey experienced chest pains. X-rays showed the burr in the lower lobe...
...underplot in Sooky concerns Sooky's efforts to get into a juvenile club whose members wear uniforms and drill like soldiers. To do this, he learns how to play a bugle, marches with Skippy in a parade arranged to discomfort Skippy's father who is running for mayor. Presently, Sooky's mother dies; Sooky goes to live at Skippy's house. Given a soldier's uniform, he wears...
...announcement followed a hard workout consisting of drill in defense and line plays. The regular group of players practiced first yesterday, giving them a chance to show their ability on fresh ice. Coach Stubbs tried out various combinations of men in both groups in an attempt to discover any hitherto hidden talent. Cooney Weiland, Bruin star, is aiding Stubbs in coaching the Harvard forward line...
...fact that no contests are scheduled for the University team until after Christmas, Coach Henry Lamar, University of Virginia graduate and winner of the national Amateur Athletic Union boxing championship in 1925 and 1926, has been working on fundamentals, with a good deal of organized calisthenics and drill, including rope skipping and shadow boxing...