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...Osborne, who never played before, has the edge at right wing while the left flank is a toss-up between Tom Langner and Bob Makinson. Fred Carr and "Rip" Ripley are fighting it out for the center forward slot, with 10 second man Carr receiving the starting assignment Wednesday...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 10/24/1941 | See Source »

...effort to bolster his end squad, which at the present time is weakened by the enforced inactivity of Bull Barnes, Loren MacKinney's understudy, and Johnny Farley, Harlow has shifted two of his tackles out to the flank position. Johnny Shattuck, a 200 pounder, and Bob Fisher both tried out at end yesterday instead of playing their usual tackle positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEAM A MAKES BAD SHOWING | 10/9/1941 | See Source »

...slim little lady from Omsk reached up and pulled a string. Her tug released a flag (hammer-&-sickle rampant on field gules) which covered part of a tank. Written boldly on the tank's bare flank was the word STALIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MORALE: Tanks and Thanks to Russia | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

Final blow came as General Krueger threw his cavalry in. Innis P. Swift, commander of the Blue's First Cavalry Division, swept out of East Texas with 17,500 men, on horse, motorcycle and scout car, slashed east and north around the Reds' right flank in a night ride. By that time Ben Lear knew the worst. Driven back from two headquarters, he had lost most of his rear-area supplies to Horseman Swift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Baffle of Louisiana | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...Leningrad. And in the south Budenny's defense of Kiev and Odessa was gravely threatened by new German eruptions east of the Dnieper. Aside from possibilities of more immediate catastrophes, if the Germans could hole up in these great Russian cities before winter, they might prepare crushing flank movements for the spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: EASTERN THEATER: Man of Steel | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

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