Word: depths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moving mines with brains," Navy men call the mosquitoes. They are built to dart at and through enemy fleets, loose torpedoes at surface warships, make a quick getaway (if they are lucky). Submarine chasers, lighter than destroyers, carry depth charges instead of torpedoes...
Only to laymen do the French military use the phrase "Maginot Line." In official parlance, their system of forts and ramparts is called "The Permanent Fortified Positions." In physical terms, the commentary meant that these positions have now been lengthened at both ends, and also increased in depth, on the same principle as the Siegfried Position-a network of strong points capable of being extended backward indefinitely should they be cracked in front. In psychological terms, the mention of "maneuvering" and "beyond the defensive phase" seemed to mean: "Germans, not only can you neither crack nor flank...
Retired from active service, he still headed the national defense council which built a defense-in-depth system across the Karelian Isthmus. Fashionable, popular way for Finns to spend their vacation the past two years was to go dig on the Mannerheim Line. This stretches 55 miles across the lowlands and, besides pillboxes and blockhouses, it contains a maze of tank traps and barriers. The fields and fir forests here are studded with granite boulders, which the Finns arranged in serried ranks, buried deeply with their jagged points sticking six feet...
...which are being shown on the first floor of the museum, are primarily humorous and satirical renditions of the actors who lived during the time of the artist. The subject matter is handled so skillfully that it is not necessary to know anything about the characters who are portrayed; depth and interest are implicit in the technique. In certain of the pieces, for example, especially the few which represent the comedians, the systematic repetition of line motifs is exaggerated to such a marked degree that even a person who knows comparatively little about Oriental art cannot help...
...shares are now held by the public) got their dividends as they had for years. Holders of its common got $8 in dividends, felt they had a fine investment in a stock which was selling at $132 before the October crash. But by the depth of the depression in 1932 the dividend on common had dropped to $1. Since then, no holder of the 1,732,366 shares outstanding has received a thin dime. In 1933 conservating Curtis Publishing had to cut its preferred dividend to nothing...