Word: erwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Censorship of out-going news in this country is far more stringent than the worst ever enforced by Germany, according to Erwin D. Canham, managing editor of the Christian Science Monitor, who spoke at P. B. H. last night on "Newspapers and the World...
...Middle East, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, who spent last week boxing his own shadow on the sand, seemed to be building up his strength for a real drive on Suez. New concentrations of German troops were in Sicily, Greece, Bulgaria; Hermann Goring was in Italy; something was in the wind...
...astrolabe enabled Columbus to discover America--he didn't know how to use it then. Professor Morison can write beautiful prose, yet he employs colloquial language to good effect ("All in all, it seems to me that Columbus's shipmates were 'good guys' . . ."). The charts in the books, by Erwin Raisy, of the institute of Geographical Exploration, are excellent...
Like a wave running up a beach, the sweeping force of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's thrust toward Tobruk had by last week slowed, thinned, sunk into the sand. What worried the British was how far the next wave might...
...arcane policy which Vichy calls "collaboration" with the Axis seemed last week to be taking definite form. According to reports from London, 14,000 French trucks had been shipped to Tunisia, oil tankers were sailing directly from Marseille to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Tripoli supply base, German ships were traversing French territorial waters on their way to the African front. In spite of official denials from Vichy, the rumors persisted...