Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Gamelin knows all about Bazaine's blunder and he knows also the history of the first Napoleon, who never made such mistakes. Napoleon frequently carried his eagles through the Black Forest into southern Germany. Ulm, Ratisbon and Hohenlinden in the South German Basin were all sites of Napoleonic...
The Baltic Plain is glacial country. When the ice cap was inching out over Europe, drainage toward the north was blocked; hence the plain is now crisscrossed-by old river beds that run from east to west, by rivers that now flow into the North and Baltic Seas. The new...
The Balkan Sworl. South of the Carpathians, Germany and her opponents face another geography. Four centuries ago when the Turk was rampant in southeastern Europe, he scared the life out of Christendom by pushing northwest, up the few (Continued on p. 35) narrow lowland channels through the sworling mountains of...
It is from a bust of the Great Emancipator above his desk that Lawyer Lem Schofield (Bob Burns) derives the inspiration that enables him to oil the troubled industrial waters, keep his young partner out of the clutches of a slick capitalist and the workers of his home town out...
Now eager as a dog on the scent, the professor returned to Harvard, wrote in the Alumni Bulletin that if any generous alumnus provided him with a suitable boat, he would be glad to pilot the donor over Columbus' whole route. Alumni and three foundations soon gave him a...