Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...efforts such as the Spanish Armada, when fleets of sailing vessels were the chief cause for worry, bring to light her virtual isolation. To this "miracle" more than any other is due the unique individuality which exists in that small country. To this are owed the great achievements along literary and along imperialistic lines. It is today, when Britain is no longer an isolated country, that the test of her greatness and her powers of protection will be called into play...
...claimed ownership; Norway annexed the eastern coast. They submitted the dispute to the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague which in 1933 upheld Denmark's claim, decided that Denmark was doing "good work." Denmark has made Greenland a closed country. Its 17,000 people are scattered along the barren coasts, the centre of the island being a gigantic uninhabitable icecap. There are 3,000 Eskimos, and Denmark is determined to protect them from the white man's diseases until they are advanced enough to compete on fairer ground. Only ships chartered by the Danish Government carry...
Suddenly last week the Companys technique did not work at all. Late at night telephone communications with France were mysteriously cut. Hours later the story began to filter out of Barcelona that Anarchists had revolted against the Companys Government. Almost instantly jumbled barricades sprang up along the tree-lined Ramblas. The streets echoed with the Carong! Carong! of machine guns, the Hahp! of light artillery. Immediate objective of the Anarchist Black-&-Reds was the Barcelona telephone exchange, a building almost as imposing as the telephone skyscraper of Madrid. This they seized and held for seven hours. Hero of the revolt...
...honor against the spread of autarchy. He does not call for war: "The liberal states could fight, might win. But could their liberalism survive the wartime curbs that would be prerequisite to victory and the new waves of economic deterioration and social disorder that afterwards would overtake the victor along with the vanquished? Hardly. . . . The call is not for an attack on the dictators but for a general mobilization against all their conceptions and practices...
First step was to finish Luke's education. Architecture was to be Luke's field. But somewhere along the way his quiet talent turned to teaching; by the time he had his Ph.D., architecture and the stage were alike long forgotten. Margery was content to have only the career of being Luke's wife, but she was bound that Luke was to be an acknowledged great man. While he kept plodding through the academic maze, Margery did her best to keep up with him, was beguiled into one blind alley after another. By the time Luke...