Word: win
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French and British people who are actually fighting the war need no further declaration of aims. They-like the Germans-are simply fighting for their lives; their war aim is to win the war. The chief benefit to the Allies in drawing up a set of war aims would be to satisfy, and perhaps enlist the sympathies of, neutral onlookers -particularly in the U. S. For the perplexed U. S. people strongly desire to know exactly what kind of world it is that the Governments of Great Britain and France are fighting to protect or gain. Nowhere was this...
...fell into so many clinches and deadlocks was that the 20% Axiom was often ignored. The Lost Battalion, having been reduced from 660 men to 190, was yanked out, given two days' rest, sent into the lines again. Never again can a commander who hopes to win a war afford to lose, as the 254th Bavarians lost on November 5, 1918, in the face of the fifth U. S. Army, all but seven of its 1,500 men. The morale of whole divisions, whole armies cracks under such strains...
...numbers. As the studio orchestra plays its string of some 20 tune choruses, listeners are supposed to identify and check off the titles on their cards. First one to fill a line across rushes to the telephone, dials a special number, shouts: "Musico!" Any single line filled may win a bag of groceries. Specially-designated "Cash" lines may win up to $100. For last week's big game over WGN, 1,100,000 listeners held cards, kept 25 National Tea special telephone operators busy with 10,000 Musicos...
...notch cow pokes miss the Broadway roundup. With luck one man can win $4,000 at the Garden while his wife gets the Broadway permanent she has been dying for. Some wives perform at the Garden too (almost all rodeos have women's bronc-riding contests). But the girl who made even the cowboys sit up-and take notice last week was a rich Texas rancher's daughter, svelte, 17-year-old Sydna Yokley, who put on as spunky an exhibition of calf roping as has ever been seen east of Powder River: throwing and tying a calf...
...Indians lost E. Lettermen through graduation. There was not a man on the first team lineup as Dartmouth opened its season with a 41.9 win over St. Lawrence University who had been on the first team when the Indians opened their 1938 campaign...