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Friday, September 20, 1918

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The Headlines

BRITISH HALT MASS DRIVE; Germans Launch Fierce Attack with Covering Fire from 40 Batteries. MOWED DOWN IN HEAPS Get Into Advanced Positions at Tragic Cost, Only to be Ousted. ALPINE CORPS WIPED OUT Haig's Veteran Divisions Break Foe at Every Point with Gun and Bayonet. Desperate Attack in Force. Philip Gibbs's Dispatch from the British Front. Foe Confused by Smoke Screen. Hard Fighting Near St. Quentin.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Till We Meet Again

Richard A. Whiting

The must-have

Lincoln Logs

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

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Soldiers

over the topblightyno man's landcooties

Suffragette

deeds not wordsvotes for women

Catchphrases of 1918

  • The Yanks are coming

Tech Check

Superheterodyne Radio Receiver, Enigma Machine (Early Version) & Hydraulic Brakes.

Cost of Living (1910)

Loaf of Bread

$0.06

Gallon of Gas

$0.15

Average Home

$3,600

New Car

$950

Time Elapsed

39,340 days ago

(107 years, 285 days)