Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coalition Government formed under Risto Ryti met in a vault under the National Bank, of which he is president, prepared to withdraw to Vaasa on the west coast when Helsinki became unlivable. The U. S. Legation withdrew to Grankulla, down the Gulf coast to the west. Departing householders were asked to water their homes inside and out before leaving, to form ice insulation against incendiary bombs...
...training in the First Corps Cadets, an Anti-Aircraft Coast Artillery Regiment, prepares a man for a commission in one of the most inodern branches of the service. The equipment is the very latest issued. (For a better picture of the equipment and training, I refer those interested to an article, "Can They Bomb Us" by Fletcher Pratt which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post of December...
Coffin writes in prose, leaving his natural poetic element to tell of a Maine man and his wife who "flourished in a time when being a Maine coast citizen meant being a citizen of the world." He relates how the couple spent the years of their wedded life continuously on the ocean: how their boys were born, raised, and schooled there; and how one was born and died there and was shipped home for burial. He draws a picture of a breed of American which belied its appearance and tradition of provincial simplicity by entering ports from Java to Cape...
...South Bend, the Notre Dame-Southern California game determined no championship. Yet 56,000 fans jampacked the Rockne stadium to find out whether undefeated Southern California was really a mighty team or just mightier than a lot of West Coast teams that were playing like chumps this year. They found out. Southern California 20, Notre Dame...
...Telg'm July 10 '39 editl pp Amer Federalist Mch 1027--Cleveland Leader called his Nature poems of boyhood "perfect": Glasgow Her and Edinburgh Scotsmen: "best America has ever produced." Re his war poems & fiction he was called "the Kipling of the World war and the China Coast" by Montreal Star May 17 1030 p 27: Nat'l mag. Boston Nov t0 15 Metrop magaz N.Y. A. B. Moore...