Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most remarkable feats of tactical support was accomplished by flyers of Brigadier General Otto P. Weyland's Nineteenth Tactical Air Command. Patton had told Weyland his right flank would be exposed and he wanted "Opie" Weyland to cover it. Weyland did. For three weeks his aircraft kept some 30,000 Germans pinned down south of the Loire, while Patton drove on. The hopeless German commander finally surrendered. When he gave up his sword to a Ninth Army commander, says the report, he "asked, to maintain German honor, that General Weyland's aircraft, which had conquered his units, should...
...Elizabeth Hull point up the moments of highest dramatic import. A stylized setting by Eva Le Gallienne presents the entire island scene on one revolving stage and makes the most of the three unities in the play. A minor flaw is Motley's costuming, which is in the nineteenth-century tradition and does not match the rest of the production...
...Manley Hopkins, Theodore Spencer, associate professor of English, read eight of the most well-known poems by the English author in Sever 11, Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. All of the poems written by this well-liked British Jesuit were published after his death, late in the nineteenth century...
Stressing that "Germany has not always been an aggressor," Professor Vietor points out that she "was a peaceful nation in the time of Goethe, Schiller, and the Romanticists." He states, however, that a change came at the end of the nineteenth century, when the country desired to assert itself and oppose the "have" nations such as England...
...when the Americans rolled into Lyons, France's dull, straight-laced third city (pop.580,000), long the world's silk capital. There was no telling how far beyond the city advance guards had penetrated, no telling how far beyond that the Maquis were solidly at work. The Nineteenth was kaput...