Word: onslaught
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Eighteen hours after the Japanese drive was launched it was 16 hours behind Japanese Lieut.-General Kenkichi Uyeda's carefully planned schedule. Not since Royal Belgium delayed Imperial Germany has an overwhelming onslaught been so spectacularly delayed...
...Japanese drive slowed up? Chinese heroism was not enough to stem the onslaught. Royal Belgium held out so long chiefly because her own able fighters had had so much previous assistance from the French General Staff. Last week "Three Germans" (men of a certain mystery but all experienced veterans of the World War) were said to be assisting the Chinese defenders of Shanghai...
...last-chukker onslaught, resulting in four quick goals, brought victory to the Harvard polo team in a spirited game with the Princeton trio Saturday night on the Commonwealth Armory tanbark. It was no last minute frenzied rally, but a cool, calculated offensive, led by W. S. Luton '33, who scored the four winning tallies which brought the 10 to 7 1-2 victory to the Crimson...
...game was hard fought all around with neither trio in the lead much of the time, although a six point handicap gave Harvard a good start. The furious onslaught of the Cavairy in the last chukker resulted in the two deciding goals which gave them the trophy honors. This was the Crimson's last league game of the season, but it will continue to perform on the Armory tanbark in intercollegiate contests, starting with the Princeton tilt next week, the first polo game with the Tiger since...
...Noble and Greenough sextet which succumbed to the onslaught of the Harvard Jayvees on January 8 will try its luck against the Freshman Hockey team in the Boston Garden this afternoon. This game was slated for Saturday at Dedham, but was postponed owing to poor ice conditions. The yearlings have been showing improvement under Coach Clark Hodder all winter and should be able to overcome the resistance which the schoolboy stickmen showed with such little success in their game with the seconds...