Word: spotted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every part of Rumania, but in Bucharest they put on a grisly show. The assassination had occurred at 1:30 p. m. and punctually at 11 p. m. the same night seven young Iron Guards who had confessed to the murder of Little Hercules were brought to the spot where the assassination had taken place, forced to reenact it under police floodlight and then executed, in situ. The executioners were seven Rumanian soldiers, each of whom drew a pistol and killed one of the seven Iron Guards. The bodies slumped to the pavement, gushing blood and sprawled grotesquely next...
...gone . . . No word ensues from the Southland, traditional hangout for Harvard men. It is to be hoped, however, that they do as well as last year in giving Boston a chance to hear music rather than Ruby Newman . . . At this writing, the Little Harlem, colored dine and dance spot right near the Raymor-Roseland corner, plans to have Jack Hill again. Hill has the finest small jump combo in town and is very swell for both listening and dancing...
...Westwall section 100 miles east-west behind the Saar Valley, along which the Allies were feeling for a soft spot, is one of the newest. Behind it valleys run into the Rhine from the North and East. But no military observer expected any immediate smashing of the Siegfried Stellung, 1939 style...
...infantry has done since time immemorial: take up terrain favorable to it and unfavorable to the enemy-on ridges, slopes, behind spurs-and when the counter-attackers uncoil their spring, let them have it. A bath of dragon's blood made the hero Siegfried invulnerable except for one spot on his back where a leaf stuck, and that is where Hagen's spear...
...students, having the post-war reconstruction of the social order in the back of their minds, will think it best to concentrate in the social sciences. They reason that a man trained in the theory of government or in the history of socialism will be the Johnnie-on-the-spot. And if these students move into History or Government or Economics for no other reason than this, they will greatly delude themselves...