Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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". . . The sub came up and it was so close that we could see men smoking in the turret. It looked as though we were looking right into the mouth of its gun. But when he fired, the shot fell a few yards short of us. ... We fired about eight shots...
Also on French soil last week was Britain's Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood. He bustled through the base fields, interviewed pilots who had seen action, said bonjour to one of their landladies by way of improving international relations. Correspondent William Stoneman of the Chicago Daily News wrote: "A...
But the German advance was no bull-headed onslaught. The actual attack elements were not large bodies of men although heavy reserves followed them. When the French counterattacked once or twice to inflict heavier punishment, the German secondaries stood fast, and their retreating firsts laid "tank asparagus" (sharpened steel rails...
One-sixth of the population of Finland had fled from their homes last week, terrified lest a Russian invasion should follow up the still secret demands of Joseph Stalin. Peasants abandoned their farms along the Soviet frontier, the men joining the Finnish Army, the women and children plodding on foot...
With German U-boats now sinking a Scandinavian freighter every few days in the North Sea, the angry question was being asked by Norwegians, Swedes and Danes, "Where is the British Navy? Is it leaving us to the mercy of Germany, or what?"