Word: forests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great Warndt Forest," forming a "huge pocket into French territory," accounted for over half of the total square mileage: 15 miles wide by eight miles deep...
Irene Castle McLaughlin, longtime plaintiff in a divorce suit against Major Frederic McLaughlin, petitioned that their daughter Barbara, 14, be removed from Ferry Hall school in Lake Forest, Ill. (Alma Mater of Jean Harlow), transferred to an eastern school. She testified: "I visited Ferry Hall last spring and was disappointed by the class of girls there. Some of them dyed their hair. . . . One day recently, I asked Barbara to come and see me and she said she couldn't because they were going to have steak for dinner." Steak or no steak, the court ruled that Barbara should stay...
...them the wonders of the Westwall. The correspondents wrote marveling descriptions of the Wall's depth, complexity and strength; its clever tricks of camouflage; murderous traps for tanks and infantry; ponderous guns for long-range punishment of the Allies. "The Westwall will never be finished, just as a forest never ceases to grow," they quoted one general as saying. They gave the net impression that the Wall was, if not precisely impregnable, so immensely flexible that it could bend indefinitely under assault and ultimately exhaust its attackers...
...true that, hideous though local scenes were-a shell lighting on the crew of a pillbox, a riddled fighting plane screeching to its crash, a forest suddenly illuminated at night by roaring red dynamite, a man crawling back through the grass to an aid station-they were as nothing compared to what could & would take place when one side or other turned loose its full offensive power. When & where that offensive would come remained inscrutable at the end of the war's third week, but major stirrings and preparations, monstrous massing of men on both sides, boded cataclysm soon...
...Prince Starting from the Trier-Saarbrtücken area (where fighting is most active this time), his course was through Luxembourg and Longwy in a short arc southwest to Verdun. The Fourth Army, under Duke Albrecht, was to swing in a wider arc through Luxembourg into the dense Ardennes forest, cross the Meuse and the Aisne northwest of the Crown Prince's Army, and sweep south toward Châlons. Other concentric arcs were mapped for the Third and Second Armies under Generals Hausen and Buülow, respectively, who jumped off from between Aachen and Trier. Hausen...