Word: furthers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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French resistance along the northwestern frontier was weak, though brave, because the French had not anticipated so wide a movement against them. While Kluck and Bülow drove through British resistance at Mons, the main French offensive, in the Ardennes, failed. The Third and Fourth German Armies crushed through...
As a further, more realistic precaution against "Dutch courage," junior officers in the Royal Air Force are allowed only a "strictly limited" amount of wine. Bars in flying schools are now closed all day, treating is banned in messes and drinks are forbidden in private rooms. Penalty for breaking these...
> The coal industry was under pressure to supply domestic customers anxious to pile up stocks at pre-war prices; needy belligerents and neutrals who formerly bought from England or Germany. Last week the Norfolk & Western Railway which taps the mines of West Virginia and Kentucky carried 20,845 cars of...
Back home in Manhattan, Sergeant Smith was soon in the big time, playing at Reisenweher's (as did the famed Original Dixieland Jazz Band), accompanying the great Mamie Smith on Okeh records, traveling the Keith Circuit with a band. Prohibition led him prosperously underground, and lovers of hot music...
Author Milne further objects to the lopsided fate that lets his plays (Mr. Pim Passes By, etc.), novels and essays (which he prefers) be forgotten and has made children's classics of When We Were Very Young and Winnie-the-Pooh. Sick & tired of his short-pants reputation, he...