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...University wasn't always the imposing place it is now. In 1680 two Dutchmen stopping in Boston came out to Cambridge to see what they could see. They recorded that the College building was the salient feature of the landscape and when they approached they heard a great deal of noise. Entering it and going up stairs they found a blue haze of smoke through which could be dimly seen eight or ten students "smoking tobacco" as they put it. None of them knew any Latin, French, or Dutch, and the Dutchmen knew no English, so communication was difficult. However...
Nikolai Vatutin's salient was a long, narrow thrust into prewar Poland. To the Germans it looked like a dagger that could strike at Rumania, at Poland, at the last remaining rail line feeding the Wehrmacht in the Ukraine...
...three weeks Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein tried to blunt the salient with the flesh of his men. Vatutin's army, grimy with the dust of the 350 miles it had covered since last October, beat off the desperate attacks. Last week the hour struck...
...foremost concern was Britain's place in a power-political continent and world. But he did not allay all of the House of Commons' doubt and distrust. Cried a caustic, Conservative M.P. : The Prime Minister is "a Charlie McCarthy for Stalin. . . ." Such complainants failed to grasp the salient fact of Churchill's speech: to the. best of his vast abilities, Tory Churchill was fighting defensively for Britain. At the end of a restive, two-day debate, Anthony Eden completed the maneuvers which his chief had begun. Like Churchill, the Foreign Secretary carefully retraced the give-&-take...
...fourth day, the enemy's defenses had been breached, his men put to flight. Then the two wedges became iron jaws, crushing the thin German salient still left between them. By the eighth day, Red units had taken a railroad to Moscow, were headed for the second...