Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians, the remainder of the Ukrainian campaign was a cleanup operation, but it had to be cleaned up in a hurry. The Germans obviously intended to slow them up as much as possible-for time to the Germans means opportunity to anchor a new front in Rumania...
...collar insignia, being designed by Mr. Bob Davis of the Coop for midshipmen in the senior class, will be ready for sale early in April. The new device will be a gold oak leaf superimposed on an anchor...
...pool. He drenched his own world's record with 49·7· But at longer distances, Smith looks like the better swimmer. He holds 23 world's free-style records, from 2:07.1 for 220 yds. to 18:03.8 for 1,400 meters. He also is anchor man on the Great Lakes Naval Training Station relay team that holds three more world's records...
After the Englishmen came Russian explorers, Yankee whalers and missionaries, German traders. In 1885 German warships dropped anchor off Jaluit, claimed possession of the Marshalls for the Kaiser. Later Germany agreed that Britain should have the Gilberts. The German Navy dreamed of basing a fleet on Majuro atoll (north of Mili), and in World War I Admiral Graf von Spee stopped there on his way to the Falklands. Then in 1914 the Japs seized the Marshalls, along with the neighboring Marianas and Carolines, now site of the Truk powerhouse; they remained in possession with League blessing. From then...
...melee at the end of World War I, the reason for Austria was ignored. The treaties forbade union with Germany, failed to provide a substitute anchor. With nearly nine-tenths of her territory gone and all of her old relations with the rest of the Danube Valley disrupted, easygoing Austria slipped forlornly into a coma, unable to live and forbidden to die. Decay set in where gaiety had been. Vienna with nearly 2,000,000 became an oversized head; the rest of Austria, with less than 5,000,000 where the old Empire had over...