Word: denning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...limited defense of the Scheldt basin; a student of army motorization, a specialist in communications, a believer in preventive mobilization. Last February, Defense Minister Denis substituted energetic Major General F. F. 0. Michiels as Chief of Staff in place of less pro-Ally Lieut. General Emile Van den Bergen, whose kidney was not for a "lastman" defense...
Boden Bo'-den...
Accompanying Capitalist Ryti into the Bolshevik's lion's den was plutocrat Major General Karl Rudolf Walden, member of the Defense Council, close friend and adviser to Baron Mannerheim. Known as Finland's cellulose king and one of her wealthiest citizens, he is editor-owner of the second largest Finnish daily, Uusi Suomi (New Finland). Third Finn was 71-year-old Väinö Voionmaa, ex-Foreign Minister, ex-Minister of Commerce, professor of history, member of Parliament. Fourth Finn was Juho Paasikivi, who was supposed to have been in Stockholm...
...will connect the caller with the Southwest Bedroom; 592 with the Furnace Room; 597 with the Maid's Quarters, and 590 with both ends of the Dining-Room Table. Despite this room-to-room hookup, there is a flaw in the service. If Mr. Moore were in his Den (589) and a friend called him in the Front Upper Hall (593), he would likely as not fail to hear the phone ring, miss the call. From this intense coverage the Moore system is an average $18 a month richer by virtue of Michigan's law requiring utility officials...
Caustically replying to the Committee's charges, Den Hartog, associate professor in Engineering and head of the flying program here, admitted that if the United States enters the war, pilots will probably be drafted into the Air Corps, but he said that "there is not the slightest possibility that pilots will be drafted for military service before the general population...