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Since U.S. soldiers direct their fire at sounds when they cannot see a target and are likely to fire their rifles blindly from their trenches, it is comparatively easy to surround their positions, if one acts with coolness and deliberation. In such cases, the best method is to attack with hand grenades and then to switch promptly to hand-to-hand combat. American soldiers are terrified by our night attacks...
...Then the Goldwyn men leased the El Patio ballroom, alongside the Southern Pacific railroad tracks. Reno's Fire Chief, George M. Twaddle, regretfully informed them that their portable projection booth did not conform to Reno's fire laws. They tried to rent a parking lot, planning to surround it with a 10 ft. canvas fence and show the movie outdoors. The building laws stopped them...
...rapidly that the pursuing Allies-making 15 miles a day along the flat Tyrrhenian coastal plain-had trouble keeping contact. The German center in the hills and the left along the Adriatic, falling back more slowly, faced dire peril. Through the flagging right the Allies might knife suddenly eastward, surround the rest of the Germans...
...been on record since 1938 that the Wagner Act is a "one-sided piece of legislation." He forthrightly accused his old WLBoard fellows of "cheap legal side stepping" in the Montgomery Ward case, and said "palace guarders that surround the President have their hearts set on taking over heavy industry in this country." Morse's Democratic opposition in the November finals will be Edgar W. Smith, a Portland insurance man and political unknown. Oregon in November will also choose a Senator to fill four years of the late Charles McNary's term. Guy Cordon, interim Senator since McNary...
...this World. Backman believes it very unlikely that life originated on the earth; he thinks it more probably started in the more favorable atmospheres containing methane and ammonia gases which surround planets such as Jupiter, Venus and Mars. From them, he says, living organisms may have been transported to the earth by meteorites or by the propulsive power of the sun's rays...