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...still they come, and object violently if refused admission. Not long ago an English schoolmaster declared the present English youth to be dishonest, lazy, and irresponsible. It is only a short step from such a general remark to Mr. Flexner's broad assertions concerning American students. Broadly aimed flank attacks of this kind upon the universities and colleges of a nation soon fall to pieces if the writer's assertions are rigidly tested. Mr. Flexner can however be satisfied that he has given the educational system a stern diagnosis and criticism that is necessary for the continued health...
Denikin's, Kolchak's and Petlura's White armies, struck the naked Polish flank. The Poles began a retreat which did not halt until the Russians were at the gates of Warsaw. Day after day for two months the Squadron fought a 400-mi. rear-guard action, covering the evacuation of towns, hindering and harassing Budenny at every turn. Often their base train would slip out of the west of a town as the Cossacks clattered in at the east. Once they were forced to burn planes that failed at the last moment, the pilots escaping...
Some day Denverites will resegregate art and government. Two Denver women, Rachel Schlier and Helen Dill, have already left half a million toward building an art museum in the Civic Centre. It will probably flank the Greek theatre, face the Public Library across an acre of Denver's phenomenally green grass...
Japanese cavalry were first in the charge. Riding down the Chinese front line they cut a swath into which Japanese infantry poured pell mell, yelling. General Ma's right flank held at first. Chinese cavalry tried to encircle the Japanese right, but Japanese field guns and bombing planes stopped that. A lone Chinese anti-aircraft gun atop an armored car waggled and wobbled, frantically failed to hit even one of six Japanese planes. Nine Chinese field batteries blazed valiantly, but along a five-mile front superior Japanese armament turned the battle's tide. Chinese units broke, fled...
General Ma, despite his frontal resistance and spirited efforts to turn the Japanese right flank, was forced slowly back upon Tsitsihar. Miles behind the Japanese lines during the week and safe from Chinese capture was the famed Nonni River Bridge, almost captured by General Ma in his first assaults. Under grim Japanese guard and directed by Japanese engineers, docile Chinese coolies completed repairs to the dynamited bridge, made possible the further advance of chuffing Japanese armored trains...