Word: fortress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...favor which he had worked up as result of making no attempt to hide his Nationalistic sentiment. "Ludy" was unafraid. Last week, for example, he told his judges that they themselves sat "before the judgment of History, which does not send men who fought for the Fatherland to a fortress, but to a Valhalla...
...Much more infamous it is to have sold every gallon of our reserve oil than it was for Benedict Arnold who wanted to sell only a rocky fortress on the Hudson River...
...suspected of Royalist sympathies. He later declared, however, that he was not thinking of a directorate and considered that he had strengthened his own position by alienating the support of the " Anglo-Saxon world and Italy " from France. Herr Adolf Hitler, known as Bavarian Mussolini, was in the Fortress of Landsberg, about 36 miles west of Munich, by the Bavarian Government for his share in the recent putsch (TIME, Nov. 19). His trial is not likely to take place until after Christmas. Recent despatches report that he is critically ill with brain, fever. Dr. Joseph Wirth, ex-Chancellor and Minister...
Secretary Weeks is often described as being in appearance typical of the War Department. Not dashing, his is the warfare of defense. " His big and shining dome looks like a fortress," says Mark Sullivan, famed Washington observer...
...Fortress Monroe, Va., was performed by the U. S. navy the best shooting ever accomplished with any kind of anti-aircraft guns...