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Coach Rene Peroy's swordsmen run into a twelve-team thicket of opposition when they enter the Intercollegiate Fencing Association meet. Three representatives in each of the events, foil, epee, and saber will carry the Crimson standard in New York this weekend...
...Fourth's artillery had moved up first to support the Panzer outfit. Then the Fourth's infantrymen scrambled out from bush and thicket, wheeled out their half-track (part caterpillar) troop carriers and headed for the front. For 25 to 30 miles they slogged along at 25 m.p.h...
...years the U.S. has heard, in vast doses of oratory, that it could beat Hitler without fighting him. Now somewhere a mighty battle was raging, somewhere in some unreal thicket of unpronounceable names somewhere in the suburbs of Moscow. Each day the great armies clashed and retreated, were encircled, imprisoned, wiped out, again .encircled, again wiped out; each day innumerable unreal tanks were destroyed, attacked again, again destroyed; each day 100 airplanes were shot down, flew over again, were again shot down. Each day the Germans advanced, the defense stiffened, finally the Government fled...
...Joseph Stalin could not let this immediacy dazzle his eyes and stop his mind. He had to chop his way out of a thicket of decisions-about Moscow's de fense, about moving the Government to old Samara, now called Kuibyshev, about defending the Donets Basin, about the Volga, the Urals, the Far East, about Russia's present and Russia's future...
...fortunes, galloped through a handful of Mexican revolutions and was one of the dupes in the Dr. Cook oil scandal. For the past decade, he has ambled the 500 miles of the Trinity River valley in east Texas preaching agricultural betterment to the families of the Big Thicket. In 1933 he put on a personal promotion campaign for canalization of the Trinity by piloting a skiff from Dallas to the Chicago World's Fair. The skiff tied into a Mississippi tow going north from New Orleans. Three or four days out, according to river bargemen, the cook complained...