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...walked in at a crouch close to Petrolle with his hands up beside his ears, then suddenly cut loose with both hands, wide open. Coldly, Petrolle stabbed him with trip-hammer rights, straight lefts, and backed away. Crouching again, Battalino sprang after him, savagely knocked Petrolle down with another torrent of blows. Petrolle is one of the ring's sagest fighters. He knelt till the count of nine, stalled for more time by wiping the resin off his gloves on the referee's shirt. Then, steadied, he resumed his fearful slashing of Battalino's face...
...victory is possible. Morally I am certain that we shall gain it." The Author. Born in 1895, Capt. Basil Henry Liddell Hart, entered the British Army in 1914 as a Cambridge University Candidate; at 20 he commanded a battalion. He invented the English Battle Drill System (1917); the Expanding Torrent method of attack, officially adopted since the War. Badly wounded, he stayed in the army until 1927. As military correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, Military Editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, his theories of future warfare, army mechanization have been read, inwardly digested by Europe's leading Ministries...
...Philip's loud snort of disgust answered the question before his torrent of denials. It was very evident that...
Into the bonds of the railroad companies has poured a torrent of funds seeking, above all else, security of principal. Capitalists, wage-earners, fiduciary trustees and savings banks alike have found in rail bonds a safe haven for their money and a fair return thereon. But the Depression of today by its length and severity has shattered the standards of other times, undermined the confidence of generations. Quick cause for this undermining came when the railroads appealed en masse last winter to the Interstate Commerce Commission for a 15% increase in freight rates, on the ground that unless this...
...bright-eyed, hard-muscled little wife, and four men companions, after a three-month struggle up the hot, muggy Orinoco, reached the top of a "gigantic" peak of the Parima Mountains. From here they saw the second largest river in South America as a 20-ft., boulder-strewn torrent, "fed by myriad brooks which emanate from the surrounding mountains...