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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Remembering from "last time" the futility of trying to charge against a machine gun, Captain Liddell Hart lays down the axiom that in modern warfare the defense has a great advantage over the attack: no attack succeeds unless the attackers secure surprise or have at least a 3-to-1 preponderance over the attacked. This does not mean merely in men (in the last war some attacks failed with a 16-to-1 preponderance in men), but in fire power. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Defense Is the Best Attack | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...invite defeat. The first assertion is unhistorical; the second unpractical. We conducted all our wars until the last on the policy of profiting by our sea-moat and seapower to limit our liability . . . and had a sustained run of success in, and after, them that no other modern nation has known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Defense Is the Best Attack | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Horn in Berlin and brought up in Buffalo in what she terms one of the "Harvard periods" of that city, Miss Cornell made her theatrical debut with the Washington Square Players in 1917. Since that time she has acted in many Shakespearean and modern plays, becoming one of the most accomplished and renowned stage actress of the present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Katherine Cornell Avows Her Weakness For All Harvard Men, Young and Old | 10/6/1939 | See Source »

Igor Strawinsky, internationally known composer of modern music, who last year was awarded the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry, will give the first of his six lectures on Wednesday, October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRAWINSKY TO START LECTURES OCTOBER 18 | 10/6/1939 | See Source »

Outside the social sciences, modern languages and the pure sciences have the largest number of followers. The French Department has a total of 1,143. The German Department has dropped below the thousand mark with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Department Courses Lead in Total Enrollment Figures in College | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

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