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...Methods. In recent years General Gamelin had walked attentively, at the brisk half-trot he learned in the Chasseurs, over almost every square mile of the terrain to which Germany now brought the war. He knew minutely its potentialities for defense by war of position-the prevailing school of French Army thought ever since the Maginot Line was conceived and erected. At the war's outset he announced that he would be miserly in spending human life. His stand-and-take-it order meant that the Germans had forced him out of position and into a war of maneuver...
Said Here and Now's editorial leader: "Critics [of the Younger Generation] gasp at jitterbugging, forgetting completely those 'immoral' gyrations that 30 years ago were the turkey trot, the grizzly bear and the bunny hug. They wring their hands as they view the diminutive church attendance. . . . One wonders why more of them are not seen in church. . . . The kids of today don't have the real stuff anymore,' they say self-appreciatingly. 'Why, when I was young, do you think . . .?' and so on ad infinitum. When we are looked upon in such manner...
This probably will not put the outcome in doubt; Coach Peroy predicts that "we won't have much trouble." But what it may do to the rest of the season, if these two lads are unable to trot their marks to the Dean's Office level, is a horse of a different color. Hopes for an undefeated team are more than a little clouded at present...
Fortnight ago a bandy-legged Billiken with a massive gargoyle head, a nose like a Bartlett pear, ham hands and fiddle-case feet, popped out of Central Park woods in Manhattan and loped off around the reservoir in a tiger-cat trot. Manhattanites who brisk around the reservoir in wintry weather are generally game guys, but one gander at this interloper was enough to send some skedaddling...
...fighters. Britain claimed that 125 Nazi warplanes of all types had been shot down, and had reason to believe that British Supermarine Spitfires and Hawker Hurricanes (capable of 335 m. p. h. and firing eight machine guns from their wings' leading edge) were up to anything Germany could trot...