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...Eduard Benes (pronounced Benesh), that Adolf is their neighbor, Hitler, that the fence is a cup-shaped chain of mountains along the Czech-German border, a chain about the height of Vermont's Green Mountains. Since the Sixth Century this fence has served as a barrier against the eastward push of Teutonic tribes, but never has its protective power been of such worldwide concern as in 1938. Inhabited largely by Germans, the whole length of the fence has come to be known as the Sudeten region, although the Sudetes Mountains form only the northern side...
...light breeze over the starboard bow and a still surface favored the Freshman race, but as the wind hauled around to eastward the water in the basin chopped up and make tough going for the Varsity. All Harvard crows finished at 36 and kept up an easy 30 for the greater part of the race
...dipped steaming from a bucket. Unsympathetic with these soldiers who had stopped fighting, pugnacious Novelist Ernest Hemingway filed a hard-boiled dispatch from Leftist Spain's sunny seacoast: "In the far north, under the shadow of the Pyrenees, General Franco's troops have advanced steadily north and eastward in a country where positions could be held by determined graduates of any good girls' finishing school...
...twinkling, they patter up the steps and are embraced by the great carved doors which close behind them so quickly that it is impossible to view them in detail. But they will emerge again, board an orange streetcar again, demand transfers again, and rattle off again southward or eastward...
...America to National City in 1931. By that deal Transamerica became National City's biggest stockholder, and in 1933 A. P. and his friend John Francis Neylan went on the National City board of directors, where they still sit. Thus the idea that A. P. was marching eastward again, a periodic rumor, was slightly absurd, because A. P. still had a heavy, if minority, stake in the East. His new stake in Chicago banking is even more of a minority stake because 15,000 of Continental represents only a 1% interest...