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Word: brest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regular army. To pass the time the prisoners write novels, play soundless music on a plank painted like the keyboard of a piano, compose invisible petitions on imaginary typewriters. Amateur theatricals turn the whole camp into a burrow of homosexuality. When the Russian Revolution and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk come, the prisoners plan an escape en masse, nearly run into a massacre, are thankful to get back to their safe prison again. As the Revolution and counterrevolution roll across the country, the prison becomes a self-governing community: rank counts for nothing, money everything. Soon a miniature city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Microcosm of War | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Dieu Herrick! In a special railway baggage car - redecorated with potted plants and burning candles to resemble a chapelle ardente - the remains of Myron Timothy Herrick left Paris for Brest by special train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Under Two Flags | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Because the coffin was going to be conveyed from Brest to Manhattan on the French cruiser Tourville, and because women are positively not allowed on French warships, Mrs. Parmely Herrick sped by a different route to Cherbourg, caught the Aquitania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Under Two Flags | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

ONDINE WAS ONE OF 12 SUBMARINES 600 TONS TYPE JUST COMPLETED SHE WAS ONE OF THE BEST AND NEWEST IN FRENCH SUBMARINE COASTAL DEFENSE PROGRAM WAS SUNK ON HER FIRST ENDURANCE TRIAL FROM BREST TO BIZERTA WE HAVE BUILT AND ARE BUILDING BIGGER LONG RANGE SUBMARINES OF OTHER TYPES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 7, 1929 | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...external sinking fund gold bonds through a banking syndicate composed of A. Iselin & Co., Brown Brothers & Co., Halsey, Stuart & Co., Hemphill, Noyes & Co. and Wood, Gundy & Co. Few financial theorists in the U. S. reflected sentimentally that this was the railroad that carried U. S. soldiers from Bordeaux or Brest to battle. But all financial theorists did reflect deeply upon that interest rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: French Credit | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

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