Word: caen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cahill is factually illuminating where most analysts would prove vague. He observes that the capture by Imperial Germany of so many industrial towns in Northern France forced the development of an entire new industrial area around such southern, central and western cities as Marseilles, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Grenoble, Limoges, Tours, Caen, Rouen and even Paris. It is these new and War-born producer areas which Mr. Cahill hails as of paramount significance in the French industrial boom of today...
...memorial is executed in Caen stone by Miss Malvina Hoffman of New York and is entitled "The Sacrifice". It was not sculptured with the intention of commemorating Harvard heroes or serving as a memorial to Robert Bacon, but it was purchased by Mrs. Bacon and given for its present purpose...
...Author. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, born in Caen, France, in 1735, served under Montcalm, and turned his back on Canada after the fall of Quebec. Surveyor, mapmaker, soldier, negotiator with the Indians, he settled down as a farmer, after his marriage, in the province of New York. He "suffered much for his attachment to his Majesty's government and friends," was driven from his farm and became a refugee, protected with others of his kind by Clinton's army, until 1870, when he returned to France. After the war France sent him to America as consul...
...inches of the high water record of 1910, at Troyes; but at Paris only the suburbs had been flooded late in the week. The Marne, Loire, Rhone, Oise, Cher, etc., overflowed with variously disastrous results.. The Orne caused damages running into millions of francs and one death at Caen, the so called "Intellectual Capital of Normandy...
...with my own eyes: a young Frenchman knocked deliberately and for no reason from his bicycle into three inches of black dust at Cherbourg; drunkenness on the Olympic train from Cherbourg to Paris; the stealing of three bottles of wine from an old peasant woman at the station at Caen; and several other things of like nature that I do not put down for publication because they came to me by report rather than as first-hand verity. In general, I believe the members of the Team were courteous and considerate and well-behaved; but so, in general, were...