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...offensives. When they were finally broken by Field Marshal August von Mackensen's heavy Austrian-German-Bulgarian drive in the autumn of 1915, they were riddled by typhus and so short of munitions that their northern Army ran out of cartridges during the retreat. The retreat was no rout. It was a desperate withdrawal across Albania, in which a few thousand men held Babuna Pass for several days against 35,000 Bulgarian attackers, in which King Peter I, old and sick, escaped through snow and mountains in an oxcart, and from which 125,000 out of 385,000 managed...
Benito Mussolini was on the run last week, but he had not quite reached the end of his diplomatic tether, although disasters less terrible than the Libyan rout have toppled regimes in every century. With bases in the Balearic Islands, in Spain and in Spanish Morocco he might still retrieve his position in the Mediterranean; with Ceuta in Morocco he might even make Gibraltar untenable and cut one of Britain's supply lines...
...Skip" probably owed his popularity more than anything else to a sharp sense of humor. During the closing minutes of the 1940 Yale game rout when Harvard was out in front 28 to 0 and all the Varsity substitutes had been pouring in and out of the game, he is alleged to have called out to "Doc" Thorndike of the medical staff, "Get up, Doc, we're about to send in the bench...
Evarts, with two goals and an assist, and Alex Macmillan, with a goal and a pair of assists, led the assault on the schoolboys. Marcus Beebe, Baldwin, Burton, "Olie" Taylor, Earle Acker, Captain Al Reeves, and Charlie Cowen also participated in the rout...
...Ulenmen leave for New York highly favored to make the meet a repeat performance of last year's 48 to 27 rout. Jack Doyle, Broadway betting impressario, had quoted odds as high as 10 to 1 in favor of the Indoor Athletic Building outfit...