Word: frenches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Latest communications from John C. Baker '42, who joined the French Foreign Legion early this fall, indicate that he will soon be placed with the American Division in the Maginot line. In the meantime, he said, he is spending most of his time "having the newspapers retract false statements about...
Bakers last letter, which was addressed to John F. Seiberling '41, expressed uncertainty as to the exact date of his mobilization. "It's astoundingly difficult to convince the French government that they need any more men," Baker remarked...
...from the "anchor" of College Boards, the student's natural lust for leisure might win out. But the advantages to the student would seem to outweigh these objections. Once over with the red-devils of College Boards, he will have one year to break away from the repetition of French verb forms and reach out into the rich literature of the language. His preparation for college might consist, not of learning dates in American History, but in coordinating the social, economic and historical background of the field...
...French war communique no. 126 reported tonight it had been a "quiet day." An earlier communique said the "night was generally calm" except for "reciprocal artillery action in the region cast of the Biles River...
...game. They have cooked up a show in the best traditions of his adventure, complete with a fort in the desert and thousands and thousands of Arabs biting the dust. There's the character of the hard-as-nails Army sergeant this time a Russian in the French Foreign Legion, which gives Brian Donlevy a chance to turn in one of the best performances of his career. There's the funeral pyre and the garrison of corpses,--all the dramatic and vivid scenes which can be wrung out of Wren's story...