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Word: extracurricular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Defense Ministries, and for leading the suppression of the bandit Cedillo two years ago was given the highest possible Army rank, divisional general. Stout, with piano legs and sofa shoulders, of medium height, he was shy until his certainty that he would win the campaign made him brash. His extracurricular passion is polo. His string of ponies has traveled all the way to Long Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: An Age of Trickery | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

Something to take along to Plattsburg for extracurricular reading. The author is a colonel on the German General Staff, the translator is Theodore Knauth of NBC's staff in Berlin. Major George Fielding Eliot calls it a "masterly exposition." Colonel Foertsch's doctrine calls for open-mindedness and adaptability in the individual officer; his discussion of modern land tactics (including the rationale of tank attacks, smoke screens, plunging fire, etc.) makes a useful addition to the sum of human knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Jul. 15, 1940 | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

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