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...destroyer-submarine ratio of 1¼-to-1. The air arm now supplements destroyers and the convoy system makes their work easier, but during World War I a grand total of 781 Allied destroyers (in ratio more than 3-to-1) was none too many to ride herd on a total of 221 Austro-German submarines...
...Army. For the French Army, living in a shrieking, thundering, blood shot nightmare, last week was a period of progressive disintegration. Swarm after swarm of planes strafed them. Herd after herd of tanks charged them. Columns of armored motorcycles machine-gunned them, storms of artillery shells and grenades burst among them. Wave on fresh wave of constantly replenished German infantry pressed after them. They retreated fighting, day and night, through a time-space that had no measure because it brought no rest, and no features because the whole world was filled with smoke, noise and death...
...surface deep in several spots, but a grid campaign free of costly injuries is long overdue for Dick Harlow and his aides. If the tackles can hold out against the terrific power which is certain to be generated directly at them, Dick Harlow may pull a big surprise and herd his Johnnies right back into the thick of the Big Three scrap...
...melodrama and yet succeeds where hundreds have failed. "Dark Triumph," boasting a lot of new talent and some oldtimers like Walter Pidgeon and Clare Trevor is one of the better pictures to his a Boston screen this year. It has splendid acting, direction that knows how to use a herd of thundering cavalrymen and how to develop the character of a good man turned bad, and a touch of building-the-old-West spirit all rolled into one. If Hollywood can keep turning American history into such thrillers, it had better put the Schlesingers and Bucks on its payroll instead...
When young Dr. Adolf Meyer arrived in the U. S. from his native Switzerland almost 50 years ago, it was common practice to herd insane patients together like hopeless criminals...