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...Getz's superior, General Otto Ruge, understood their plan, went with them.) Furiously pursuing German airmen raked and bombarded the launches loading on Namsos' concatenated waterfront. They dumped rack after rack of bombs at transports and warships steaming away from shore. How many boatloads sank in the inferno the Nazis poured on them may not be known until the post-war opening of archives. At Gallipoli the British suffered 50,000 casualties out of 120,000 troops landed. The N. W. E. F. affair, a pint-sized Gallipoli, will probably lag far behind that proportion of losses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: 23 Days | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...race was held on the giant Slalom of the Sherbourne trail since the high winds made racing in the ravine unsafe. As a result of an increase in the blizzard Sunday the Inferno race was postponed probably until next Sunday. The site of Saturday's race was the same as that of the Harvard race of three weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Edges Dartmouth by 50 Second Margin in Slalom | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Ames, Ferner, Tom Winship, King, and John Abbot are also entered in the grueling Inferno race, which is now definitely slated to take place after a group of workers spent the day padding the windswept floor of the ravine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Schussmen Vie With Big Green in Annual Slalom | 4/13/1940 | See Source »

Depending on weather conditions, the event will be held on either Saturday or Sunday; the Inferno race is also scheduled for the same week-end, and if there is only one good day in the Ravine, the H-D must yield to the Inferno...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Schussmen Vie With Big Green in Annual Slalom | 4/13/1940 | See Source »

...sides. Bright lights shone in his eyes until everything had assumed an unpleasant roseate hue. Summoning all his bewildered faculties, he made a gallant effort to concentrate on the mirror in front of him which, under the glare of the strong lights, looked like a blazing inferno. Now Vag knew what it meant to be given the third degree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/21/1940 | See Source »

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