Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After these preliminaries the divisions were divided into two corps for a two-day battle. In taxicabs camouflaged with boughs of trees, some of the troops advanced to battle. On Hill 300 a regular sergeant from the First Division captured a major and four lieutenants quietly studying maps. Most serious fighting took place when a company of Vermont boys ambushed a company of regulars and fired point blank into them. A valiant Vermonter went to port arms and demanded, according to the rules of sham battle, that a regular in an exposed position surrender. The regular made a pass with...
...maneuvers as compared to 1,337 horses and mules. There were also 55 tractors, three tanks (not counting 27 worthless relics of the War) and a detachment of motorized cavalry. The three Christie tanks, eleven-ton monsters, were capable of traveling 60 m.p.h. on roads, 30 m.p.h. over hill & dale. The mechanized detachment of the ist Cavalry (at present stationed at Fort Knox, Ky., where the Treasury is building great underground vaults in which to store gold bullion) consisted of two fully armored, five-ton, six-wheeled cars, two "half tracks" (semi-caterpillars), a rolling kitchen capable of preparing meals...
...during every pause in the fight to acquaint their men with the status of the battle. Most exciting inci dents were the routing of a detachment by a hornet's nest, the flight of an umpire with a red flag from two belligerent cows, the capture of Hill 300 by the 27th Divi sion's swift advance and its subsequent loss because of: i) failure of communica tions, 2) an attack of real ptomaine poisoning which completely incapacitated two batteries...
...Nice, Auteuil, Wimbledon were crowded briefly by that small, ubiquitous group of young men with white flannel trousers and sunburned noses who make it their business, all year round, to wangle for the world's major tennis championships. Last week the group was preparing to descend on Forest Hills, N. Y. for the last major event of the year, the 54th U. S. Singles Championship. Meanwhile the long series of preliminaries to that tournament were being brought to an end at Chestnut Hill, Mass. and South Orange...
James Tobin, age 17, of 916 West Hill street, Champaign, Ill. He is the son of Louis M. Tobin, Director of Publicity, Athletic Association, University of Illinois. He was the highest ranking student in his class at University High School, Urbana, Ill., and was a leader in school activities. He was editor-in-chief of the school yearbook, was class Commencement orator, was elected head of the Junior class, was Senior chairman of the school assembly, was business manager of the dramatic club, and was a member of the basketball team. He was first in his district in the national...