Word: downe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"When my men discover the approach of a patrol party, they withhold action until they hear the marauders encounter our barbed-wire entanglements running down the slopes on all sides."
One of the most important and least noticed dispatches of the whole war in China last week hit the back pages of U. S. newspapers. It was merely a pair of sentences to the effect that Chinese troops had lured a Japanese army into perilous passes of the Chungtiao Mountains...
Alexander the Great was tickled by the philosopher's request, but it did not keep him from spending the rest of his short life elbowing others out of the best place in the sun. His romantic ambition drove him, leading victorious armies, from Macedonia up to the turgid Danube...
One column reached Nurmes, cutting the railroad that runs diagonally across Finland from Tornio on the Swedish frontier to south Karelia and the isthmus. Farther north, another column took Suomussalmi and turned southward toward lisalmi, a rail junction in the centre of Finland. Still farther north, a third column bore...
"We followed the forest across a savage, rocky plateau full of heather down into a long crooked valley.