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Communists Outfought. The Communists withdrew southward to Kiangsi and Hunan Provinces, boldly resumed their offensive while the Japanese were striking in Manchuria in 1931. Chiang alienated many a patriotic student and intellectual when he turned the Japanese invasion over to the League of Nations and prepared to turn his armies on the Communists instead of the Japanese. "If China ventures to fight the Japanese," he said, "the Communists will attack from the rear and chaos will quickly overtake the whole country...
...Bruins' opener with Amherst on Saturday, a game which the Lord Jeffs won 71 to 70, Tooley scored 39 points. Of these 39, 23 were fouls, and 16 from field goals. He also outfought everyone else on the court, clearing 28 rebounds...
...endlessly tolerant of abuse. He wore an iron ring through his nose, and around his waist a belt of lizard skins and tinkling bells. His father Abu Zed, was the potbellied chief of three African villages, and he was thoroughly disgusted with Gadein. Smaller boys outran him and outfought him. The village girls and, indeed, the whole village, laughed at him. "Here comes the lunatic!" the young men would roar. On the night of the great feast, Abu Zed publicly labeled his son: "You pig, you frog, you hyena, you almost-Egyptian...
Both Sides of Battle. The Russians were worse than surprised. In the border units one man in three had a rifle; the few machine guns were vintage World War I. The Russian tanks actually outfought the Germans, then quickly ran out of gas and became sitting ducks for German artillerymen. For the Germans it was Poland and France all over again on a massive scale. Objectives were taken like clockwork, and Moscow beckoned. For the Russians, even the stunning defeats were not so crushing as Stalin's failure to do something about it. Where were his air "falcons...
...Crimson varsity hockey team's new-found depth more than offset Dartmouth's annual inspiration up at Hanover last Saturday. Playing with a reshuffled lineup, the varsity outfought and outlasted the Indians, 6 to 4, before 2,000-odd strictly partisan spectators...