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...vast desert expanse. It is a perfect barrier against the normal kind of force. But more danger might arise if an invader applied a new mechanized technique, adapted from that which the Germans employed in France, and had really up-to-date means of carrying it out. We must reckon with the possibility. A wide-fronted advance by well-dispersed mechanized units, acting on infiltration methods, would be much harder to check than any old-style column...
Last week Britons had to reckon with Captain Liddell Hart's now very possible possibility. The German Libyan offense went into its third week of apparent doldrum. The British, worrying about morale at home, made much of their successes-a naval assault on Tripoli in which the town was given a thorough shellacking, a few raids out of Tobruch against Axis supply lines, a seaborne raid near Bardia in which a bridge was said to have been blown up, a few tank patrols near Salum. And they minimized the decision of the Duke of Aosta, commanding Italian forces...
Dartmouth, McGill, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin present the most formidable opposition that the Crimson skiers will have to reckon with. Doug Mann, captain of the Canadian university's squad, is one of the foremost eastern skiers. New Hampshire's team is strong in all four events and some of its members have been cleaning up in open meets during the early part of the season...
...must reckon with the possibility," said Dr. May, "that the exodus from Egypt was under the aegis of the snake deity of the Levite tribe, Nehushtan." Moses' rod turned into a serpent when God told him to cast it down (a miracle later performed by Aaron before Pharaoh) and the snake rod was later used by Moses to bring the ten plagues on Egypt...
Last week the U. S., counting its weapons for democracy's defense, could reckon more or less exactly what it had and might produce in guns, planes, tanks, soldiers. But it had no means of determining something even more important: the number and quality of its democrats. Closest it could get was a report by a group of educators last week on what U. S. schools were doing to instill democratic ideals: Learning the Ways of Democracy (National Education Association, Washington...