Word: junior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the catastrophe on the Somme in 1917, General Ludendorff was persuaded by a group of his junior staff officers to withdraw to a line running north-south behind the Canal du Nord between the Somme and the Scarpe River. By this move he saved his troops from a second Somme and shortened his line. More important, he gained the opportunity to prepare on virgin ground and far away from hostilities for defensive tactics which his bright young men, notably Colonel Fritz von Lossberg, had evolved for divisions after observing the French use for smaller units...
Meantime the Allied blockade of Germany became impressive. In The Downs from Broadstairs to Dover stretched a long line of merchantmen arrested and anchored pending examination. Aboard each was a guard of British seamen under a junior officer. Two British destroyers and a French gunboat patrolled the roadstead...
...competition will consist of work on the fields with the Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Freshman teams as well as some work in the locker rooms of these teams. The assignments of the competitors are so rotated from day to day that each gels an equal share of the work with each team. On game days the candidates are divided between the Freshmen and Varsity games with the majority of them working with the Varsity. Again, of course, the work is rotated so that each man gets acquainted with the work of the different jobs. It might be worthwhile here...
...November 11, so as to give the winning candidate, who will be in charge of the Yale Freshman game, and his selected assistants, a week to prepare for it. From this competition, several men are chosen to compete in the Sophomore year for the post of assistant manager their Junior year and Varsity manager their Senior year...
...assistant Junior Varsity manager and assistant head Freshman manager are also picked from this Sophomore competition. The leading candidate in the Freshman competition is awarded his numerals and is in charge of the Freshman game with Yale...