Word: triangular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undefeated minor sport elevens will attempt to continue along victorious ways this afternoon. Langdon Burwell leads the cross country squad against Dartmouth and the University of New Hampshire in a triangular affair over the Charles River course at 3:30 o'clock. Coach Jack Carr's soccer squad travels to Hanover for an important New England Intercollegiate League game...
...present plan for training of the new army is to create a skeleton organization of nine army corps, each composed of two National Guard square divisions and one Regular Army triangular division. Into these the conscripted men will be sifted...
...October 11 a meet with Boston University is tentatively scheduled but arrangements are not complete. A strong Holy Cross squad will invade the home course on October 18 and on the following Friday Dartmouth and New Hampshire tangle with the Crimson warriors in a triangular affair. The H-Y-P meet which will be held here this season, the Heptagonals and the IC4A meet both in New York then follow in succession...
...Frank Conley's moment. The tough, triangular-faced hillbilly with a term in the Federal penitentiary behind him was more resourceful and ruthless than the mass of sullen, stupefied convicts. He jumped Guard Wade, slashed with his knife, wounded him. The new guard, Claude Martin, still sitting down, raised his gun. He never got up. Before he could fire, Conley had grabbed Wade's shotgun, blazed away at Martin with both barrels. Martin fell forward. Conley's partner, Loftin, who had already disarmed the guards at his end of the line, fired another slug into the prone...
...bring an invader from the Continent. Last week both Britain and France might have devoutly thanked God for such a passageway had it been bombproof. After the abrupt surrender of Belgian King Leopold (see p. 32), some 600,000 survivors of the northern Allied Armies were locked in a triangular trap between the Lys River, the Artois Hills and the North Sea (see map). As 800,000 Germans on the ground and thousand more in the sky relentlessly pressed the trap's jaws together. Allied Generalissimo Maxime Weygand with his Armies south of the Somme could do nothing...