Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Front No. 1. From the French frontier to a few miles north of Huesca, there were until three weeks ago few formal fortifications, no trenches on this, the most scandalously inactive of all Spanish fronts. Last week's offensive has changed all that, but there is still no trench system. Defense is a matter of individual strong points and gun emplacements among the rocky precipitous hills. From ten miles north of Huesca half way down to Teruel, trenches begin in earnest. They have been dug with great enthusiasm, in systems two and three lines deep, but with little science...
...drive a wedge from Teruel to the sea thus breaking Valencia's communications with Madrid, is no longer practicable. Conversely, Teruel itself is immune to direct Leftist attack. West of Teruel to the Guadarrama Mountains is one of the two sectors in the entire line where no formal fortifications exist. In this barren rocky country such fighting as takes place consists of open guerrilla raids. Many scrubby villages do not know for weeks at a time in whose territory they...
Front No. 4. Below Toledo, for a full 150 mi. along the rolling hills of Estremadura to Mérida, again no formal line exists, but there is no unofficial truce here as in the similar sector to the north. Cavalry raids and guerrilla fighting are an almost daily occurrence. Only a shortage of men on both sides prevents Rightists from consolidating their line properly, keeps Leftists from a forceful drive through to Badajoz and the Portuguese frontier which would break Rightist communications between Franco's capital at Salamanca and the important southern strongholds of Seville and Cordoba...
...Newport, where ambitious Mrs. Sigrist was overshadowed by ambitious Mrs. Sopwith, Endeavour I, and Endeavour II held no formal trial races and rumor was that the partners had a series of misunderstandings. Mr. Sopwith selected Endeavour II as the challenger, lost his navigator when Donald MacPhee died of gastric ulcers, then lost the cup to Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's Ranger with four straight defeats. At the end of this unfortunate adventure overseas, with relations cooler than they had been in 20 years of partnership, the Sigrists and Sopwiths sailed home...
There might as first blush seem to be some reason for putting this work into the recess, since it hardly requires any formal instruction, and, for anyone who can give time to it, it is universally delightful. The King James Bible is what Professor Lowes calls the noblest monument of English prose," while the name Shakespeare speaks for itself; and the reading in the ancient authors, Homer and the like, is hardly less attractive. Yet to expect the student to take time off from his regular summer pursuits, whether it be a job or travel or merely routine of outdoor...