Word: jaeger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Serge Elisseeff, professor of Far Eastern Languages, Frederick V. Hunt, assistant professor of Physics, William W. Jaeger, University professor, Archibald MacLeish, former curator of the Nieman Collection and librarian for Congress, and Igor Strawinsky, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, were made follows of the Academy
Igor Strawinski, Serge Elisseeff, Werner W. Jaeger, and Archibald Macleish were among those elected as fellows. Percy W. Bridgman, Sidney B. Fay, Abbott P. Usher and Arthur N. Holcombe were among the officers chosen...
Stiffened by a Jaeger Battalion from Germany (Finns who had joined the German Army), Mannerheim moved on Tampere, the Reds' northern stronghold. Although he had been promised more help from Germany (German troops this time), his reinforcements failed to arrive on schedule and he laid siege to Tampere alone. Helped by lack of discipline among the Reds, he took his time, encircled the city, waited for food to run low. When the Reds were thoroughly disorganized he stormed the city, took 10,000 prisoners...