Word: bases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they heard about Italian and German mobilization and more too. In Tunisia some troops were held in barracks, while others moved up to the fortified line near the Libyan border. French submarines patrolled the Tunisian Coast. The French Mediterranean fleet of 44 warships moved suddenly into the naval base at Bizerte, at the entrance to the narrowest part of the Mediterranean opposite Sicily. Carrying out "spring exercises" not far away were 92 men-of-war of the British Home and Mediterranean Fleets...
Hoihow, Hainan's chief port, is potentially a good harbor, and a naval base there would command the Indo-China coast, some 200 miles to the west. It sits across the British Singapore-Hong Kong line and might menace the line from the Philippines to Singapore, should the U. S. and Britain ever act in concert in the East. It gives Japan a better jumping off place toward the oil-rich Netherlands Indies than it has ever had before. The Japanese Empire now stretches 2,400 miles from its farthest northern to its farthest southern outposts...
Though your Chinese is most fluent,--if one may judge from the front page article and your editorial in the Harvard Crimson of February eight,--still I feel constrained to utter these base words in English...
...Fair Good 23 Dry Powder Greenfield, N.H. Fair Good 12 4 inch powder Intervale, N.H. Fair Good 19 Powder Jackson, N.H. Fair Good 20 Powder Laconia (Gilford) N.H. Fair Good 21 4 Dry over powder Lancaster, N.H. Cloudy Good 20 Powder Lincoln, N.H. Fair Good 27 Powder; 22 base Littleton, N.H. Fair Good 22 5 inch new powder Monadnock Region, N.H. Fair Good 15 4 inches new Newfound Region, N.H. Fair Good 27 Powder North Conway, N.H. Fair Good 21 Powder North Woodstock, N.H. Fair Good 28 5 powder; 23 base Pinkham Notch, N.H. Fair Good 39 Powder Plymouth...
During the three weeks of unofficial drill, Stahl spent most of his time on fielding and teaching the pitcher how to keep a man on base. "With these fundamentals out of the way, we'll be able to concentrate on the other things more carefully," Stahl stated...