Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hotel Statler: given by the Army and Navy Officers Club. Admission fifty cents. III. SUNDAY MOVIES--The feature this week at the air-cooled Music Building will be "CONFIRM OR DENY" with Don Ameche. These movies are for the Student Officers of the Naval Training Schools of Harvard University. COME AND BRING YOUR FRIENDS...
...including the present war, the U.S. has invariably had "a complete record of military unpreparedness"; this time, as always in the past, the U.S. had been saved only by "a series of unanticipated events"; the only way to avoid World War III is for the U.S. to begin to prepare...
Carl Ward gloomed on: he had no confidence that anything short of "acts or directives of Congress" would assure the U.S. aircraft industry of enough peacetime business to keep it inventing, perfecting and producing enough planes to insure the U.S. against the outbreak of World War III...
...Razaf's real name: Andrea Razafinkeriefo. He is the nephew of Ranavalona III, last Queen of Madagascar...
...rode out to command the vital border fortress of Metz in 1870 (and, a month later, to become Commander in Chief of France's Army of the Rhine), he was heard to mutter: "Nous marchons a un désastre. (We're marching to a disaster.)" Napoleon III, unable to sit a horse (because of bladder trouble), his face rouged (to conceal his deathly pallor from his troops), followed close behind General MacMahon's doomed army. When MacMahon blundered into a German trap at Sedan, the Emperor mounted a horse despite his pain, rode along the firing...