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Word: deeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tactics. Terse communiqués from the French War Ministry grew increasingly informative as the week's action developed in the Saar sector. Between the massive, deep networks of the Westwall proper and the international boundary, were not only forests of trees, but forests of pill boxes and blockhouses (called "Bunkers" by the Germans), bristling with machine guns and connected by deep trenches with the main fortifications behind. The machine guns were so placed that every foot of passable terrain was swept by two or more death-spitting muzzles. First task of the French was to feel out these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN FRONT: Soar Push | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...dread of war jabbed deep into U. S. citizens when New York City's Transportation Board observed that rock-cut subways would make perfect bombproof shelters, when policemen were assigned to power stations, docks and vital factories to guard against sabotage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shadows | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Young King George VI drew a deep breath and went on, "We have been forced into a conflict, for we are called, with our allies, to meet the challenge of a principle which, if it were to prevail, would be fatal to any civilized order in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ultimate Issue | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Persona grata with the Nazi regime, no exile, Wilhelm's oldest son, Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor August Ernst, now 57, was discovered living quietly in Potsdam, near Berlin. Almost forgotten last week was the deep hatred which citizens of the Allies held for the Crown Prince, almost forgotten such famed cartoons as the one the Chicago Herald printed in World War I (see cut). Caption: "Drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: PEOPLE IN WAR NEWS | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...soon as war began, all precious radium supplies were sunk in shafts 60 feet deep, widely scattered throughout the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bombs and Bandages | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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