Word: fewness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Estimates were lacking on the number of men Russia was ready to hurl against the Mannerheim Line and the other three points of resistance, but the first few days' fighting sounded more like regiments than divisions, a series of holding attacks to fix the defenders in positions, set them...
Dispatches did not mention any special snow equipment, such as motored sledges, on the Russian side. But the Reds did employ their famed parachute troops. At Petsamo, this technique apparently worked well at first. Later the parachutists were surrounded where they landed and shot up. On the isthmus, Finnish sharpshooters...
Well aware that in the past few years their independence largely depended on the Germans protecting them from the Russians, and vice versa, when the Soviet Union began to attack the Finns last week they took it calmly. President Kyosti Kallio proclaimed a "state of siege." Foreign Minister Erkko observed...
Windsor, Gould, Vanderbilt. A few swank names there are in French women's war work: the Duchess of Windsor, whose Versailles Colis du Trianon sends familyess French soldiers parcels containing a pullover, two pairs of socks, two handkerchiefs, pencil & paper, cigarets, sweets and box of aspirin; orchidaceous Mrs. Frank...
"Vagabondage of Dreams." Since World War II has caused few casualties in France, the famed chateaux of the Loire are not yet converted into hospitals as they were in World War I. French women last week were actually having a good deal harder time in every way than French troops...