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The Germans were on the threshold of Moscow; they might assault it, or they might by-pass it. They had just launched a great new drive in the south, aimed at Marshal Budenny's remaining forces around Rostov-on-Don. They had taken Odessa (see p. 26). They still...
Even before Julius Caesar's time, the Germans were pushing against their western boundaries, and although Caesar drove them across the Rhine, the Romans never felt secure against them. The Kaiser must have thought of Germany's first warlord, whom the Romans called Arminius and the Germans Hermann...
In 1936 Hemingway found the great experience-The Spanish Civil War. This week he published the great novel-For Whom the Bell Tolls. He took the title from a passage by Preacher Poet John Donne: "No man is an iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of...
parried all forms of attack successfully by day, seeming even to invite the Luftwaffe in over the land so that casualties would fall on British soil. Combats took place mostly at out-of -sight altitudes. According to British claims, the ratio of German craft shot down to British craft lost...
First woman passenger ever to fly in an airplane was Edith Ogilvy Druce. (Date: Oct. 7, 1908. Place: Le Mans, France. Machine: a bamboo and piano-wire biplane. Position: seated in front of the wings. Pilot: Wilbur Wright. Duration: 3 min. Altitude reached: 97 ft.) Last week Expatriate Druce, sixtyish...