Word: hill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French did some digging in and dragged up some heavy artillery back of Perl at their supposedly "weak" corner by the Luxembourg frontier, where the right flank of a German assault would be protected by neutral territory. They sent about 1,000 men charging up a hill southwest of Pirmasens beside the Hornbach salient, but the Germans counterattacked and the French, after using planes to strafe their assailants for the first time in this war, marched down again. The Germans did some fairly heavy shelling farther east in the Wissembourg sector, to which the French replied in kind...
...ahead of him through the sludge on a packing case. While being rescued by tugs and trawlers, Bolivar's survivors could see the Yugoslav ship Carica Milica (6,371 tons) sinking not far away, also mined. Some hours later, in the same vicinity, down went the British Black hill, Torchbearer, Wigmore; the Swedish B. O. Borjesson, the Italian Grazia (the war's first casualty under Mussolini's flag). This free floating peril in the North Sea for neutrals as well as combatants, had an immediate effect on Dutch shipping. At Lisbon 1,000 passengers, aboard the liners...
...last week the onetime rah-rah sport of football reached a state bordering on mass hysteria. In North Carolina, where once only alumni cared who won the Duke-North Carolina game, last week's clash between the Blue Devils of Durham and the Tar Heels of Chapel Hill divided 3,000,000 North Carolinians into two camps. Sober businessmen, tobacco farmers and textile hands, many of whom never saw a college campus, bet like drunken sailors on either Carolina (undefeated but tied) or Duke (defeated only by Pitt...
Winthrop L. Carter Jr. '42, Chestnut Hill, Mass...
...first begun last spring by Archibald MacLeish, now librarian of Congress. Officers of the group are: production director, Arthur Gnaodinger '41, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Leverett House; continuity director, Wallace Hamilton '41, of New York City and Leverett House; and treasurer, James J. Storrow Jr., '41, of Chestnut Hill and Leverett House...