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Sendak stated, "Anyone can learn the tricks in a couple of hours, including throwing the baton over the goal post, but it does take a great deal of practice." Whoever wins the position will inherit a jinx, for every twirler in the past four years has dropped his stick in the Princeton game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RETIRING DRUM MAJOR MAY SELECT FEMININE SUCCESSOR | 2/8/1940 | See Source »

...known to have obstructed Adolf Hitler's plans for a westward Blitzkrieg last autumn. Promptly. Col. General Walther von Brauchitsch, Commander in Chief of the Armies, affirmed the military's allegiance in an article for the Völkischer Beobachter, the Nazi Party organ. Wrote he: "Whoever is National Socialist follows Frederician soldierdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Frederician Revival | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...Ladra and Tchaikovsky's Italian Caprice are expected occasionally, for they add a great deal to the attractiveness of a concert and serve as "breathers." However, when this type of music makes up half of a program, and the Reger variations weigh down the other half, one suspects that whoever planned the concert did not think much of his audience...

Author: By L. C. Holvik, | Title: The Music Box | 1/24/1940 | See Source »

...justice do not exist for us any more. . . . The transition from the normal status of National Socialist legal thinking to thinking in terms of the law of war is being accomplished without grave upheavals. . . . The decisive principle is, who is stronger, who is more determined, who has better nerves? Whoever does not admit this is a pale theorist and is no good for politics or, in the deepest sense, for creative law-giving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pale Phantoms | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...raider, whoever she was, did not think for another moment of the Clement's crew. With good weather and luck, all of them reached shore. All 47 were immediately asked a question everyone wanted answered. What ship attacked? One man, apparently a spokesman, replied with assurance: "The attacking ship came so close I could read the name Admiral von Scheer." Either his eyesight or his memory was bad: the name he had meant to speak was Admiral Scheer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Old Game | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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