Word: percivale
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The poetry reader Was General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, Commander in Chief of Britain's Middle East Forces, on his way to Crete to inspect new British establishments there. At Suda Bay he heard reports from the expeditionary officers and toured gun emplacements. One of the huge guns was...
But before the winter is out, Adolf Hitler hopes that new actions will erase old words. For the military equipment of Sir Archibald Percival Wavell is already grossly inadequate compared with that of Graziani and the Italians. He is thought to be outnumbered between two and three to one in...
Well he knew that the British had prepared a reception for his troops as hot as the man-killing sun which danced off his pith helmet. Not without a fight would the British relinquish their airport, their desert training post and railhead of their vital line curling back 165 miles...
Among the many special collections which will be housed in the new library are those of Charles Eliot Norton; Charles Sumner and Harold Murdock, father of Professor Kenneth Murdock, Leverett House master; and the gifts of Thomas Carlyle, James Byrne, Mrs. Brandegee, Herbert Weir Smythe, John Stetson, George Herbert Palmer...
At Sûdi Barrani the Italians halted to gather themselves for the push to Mersa Matrûh, where Cleopatra used to bathe in the blue sea waves. No sooner had the Italians settled down than the R. A. F. from the air and the Royal Navy from the...