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...first year of gymnastics, the inadequacy of facilities became apparent. The continuous cry for a sports center was finally answered by Mrs. Hemenway, and a wave of sports enthusiasm immediately overran the Annex...
Persuasive Mail. Last summer. Chen Yi overran the railroad south of Tsinan. Isolated and besieged, Wang strengthened his defenses. He threw a four-ply line of pillboxes and barbed wire around the outskirts of the city, dug a ten-foot moat. After seeing that the ancient brick wall around the inner city was properly sandbagged, he flew down to Nanking. He asked for one more division-with which, he said, Tsinan could be held. While he pleaded, Chen Yi struck...
Even if 250 Russian divisions overran the western continent in ten days, U.S. air and naval superiority operating from this triangle would make Stalin's occupation of Western Europe a more uncertain and tenuous military asset than Hitler...
...like to be a ghost: le silence éternel de ces espaces in finis m'effraie-the eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me. Pascal said that, you know. Not bad for a man who had never been liquidated. And then," the Tsarina added, "Stalin overran Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania...
Time for the General. During those years, when Marshall also cultivated the unfashionable art of war, he fought for universal military training and an adequate defense establishment. But the weeds of complacency overran his efforts until, in 1939, when the nation became genuinely apprehensive, he was given the job of shaping an army. Two years before Pearl Harbor, he was made the Army's Chief of Staff...