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Beside this battle, that of Salamis (480 B.C.) seems now a great exercise in fustian: there Xerxes, surrounded by his brilliant court, sitting on a throne on a shoulder of Mt. Aegaleus, watched his hopes of world conquest crushed on the crescent of water below, watched the brazen-beaked Athenian triremes dart in and bite the fat bellies of his own oversized craft, 400 little ships crushing twice as many big ones. One of the Athenian seamen that day was a poetic fellow named Aeschylus...
They rushed on to the Turkish Embassy, and waved the crescent & star beside those other two fine flags. It was the Turkish Republic's 17th birthday, and they had heard that in Ankara the paper Ulus had said: "We prefer the hell of war to a dishonorable peace." Just like the stubborn Turks, they said...
...Cornell cheering section, nestled in the crook of Schoellkopf crescent, chanted their plea for a touchdown. The game was only ten minutes old, but their beloved Big Red had already crossed Columbia's goal line once, had just intercepted a Columbia pass, and there they were on the visitors' 20-yd. line. Go they did - for another touchdown in the second quarter, two more in the third. As twilight settled above Cayuga's waters, Cornell had scored its fifth straight victory this season...
Through this vast productive crescent, sprinkled with iron ore, the pattern of industry runs with scarcely an interruption-dingy houses, sooty factories, chimneys, smoke, grime. Here are the blast furnaces, iron foundries, rolling mills which turn out the indispensable metal of warfare-steel. Here is the crucible which forges the weapons of World...
Less than half of this crescent (and not the richest half) was in prewar Germany. Nonetheless with her great industrial talents Germany managed to produce about 20% of Europe's manufactures. On the Lower Rhine near the coal of the Ruhr was four-fifths of her industry. In that neighborhood are 16 cities with populations of better than 100,000 apiece-among them Cologne, Essen, Düsseldorf, Duisborg-Ruhrort, world's largest inland port. But the mills of industry do not grind without metal-bearing ores, and Germany was weak in them...