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Opening the competition for the Phillips Brooks House Shield award, four Freshman dormitory teams will take the floor at Hemenway Gymnasium this afternoon, Adolph Samborski, director of Intramural athletics announced yesterday...
...British made a decision which was dictated by necessity; to yield almost all Malaya, saving the Australians for a compact shield of men just north of Singapore. This would stretch Japanese communications through hundreds of miles of Commando-infested jungle, shorten British communications and coastline to the defensible limits of the troops in hand...
...mystic of recent ascent, Friedkin follows the Floating Power theory of crystal-balling, sitting on eight cushions placed on top of an easy chair in order to shield himself from mundane vibrations. The pillows put his chin about on the level of the top of a bookcase, and there, resting on a piece of black velvet, sits the instrument itself...
Although its honors are many, Battery D can never forget the one time it-had to spike its guns. On its shield is a broken arrow symbolizing a battle at Vincennes, when a horde of Miami Indians scalped all the battery's officers, two-thirds of its men, killed all its horses...
...possession of the military objectives. To live and move quickly against the gun requires protection. Armor gives protection in movement. The gasoline engine moves armor. And so we come to what is called mechanization." He also said: ". . . The tank is not a new weapon; the Roman legionnaire with his shield, the armored elephants of Hannibal . . . were in reality tanks using the best motive power then available...