Word: lyon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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France. Thirty German soldiers were killed, 100 seriously injured when francs-tireurs derailed a Berlin-Paris troop train. Elsewhere in France, ten military trains were wrecked. In Caen all rail connections with the port were cut by well-placed bombs. In Lyon a pitched battle with francs-tireurs cost the Germans 25 casualties. At Annamasse two bombs exploded in a Nazi office building...
...Gallery. Cross is tart about some of the Government bigwigs, but essentially kind to most of them: > Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King is "Wordy Willie," but he gets full marks as a statesman and as the ablest rough-&-tumble politician on the North American Continent...
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King won a major political victory in Canada last week. The Liberal Party in Ontario, Canada's richest and most populous province, designated rooster-beaked Harry Corwin Nixon, an all-out King man, as Party leader and the next Premier of Ontario...
...yard run--Won by Mason (H); second, Coggins (H); third, Lyon (H). Time...
...week, revealing terrific strength in the distances. Ed Hall ran a 4:32.6 mile against the Wildcats, as good as anything the Crimson runners have shown all year, and has done even better, according to current reports. Tim Coggeshall will probably lead the Harvard mile hosts, supported by Archie Lyon and Mark Tuttie. Another of the prep school stars is pole vaulter Joe Harwood, a consistent 12 footer, who will provide the toughest sort of competition for Alex Rogerson, the best the Crimson has to offer...