Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quintet of German chessmen: the biennial international tournament for the Hamilton-Russell Cup.* Davis Cup of chess; conquering 26 other nations and just squeezing out a team of nerve-racked Poles by half a point (36 to 35½); after a siege of 27 days; at Buenos Aires. U. S. chessmen, victors in 1933-35-37, did not compete this year because they couldn't be bothered...
Ever since World War I, the tales of fighting pilots' half-drunkenness in action have been proverbial. In April 1918, Captain A. Roy Brown shot down famed German Ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen. Said he, later describing his victory: "Milk and brandy were my only food [for two weeks...
...northward as Polish resistance dissolved into rout before Germany's mechanized might, passed lines of stolid peasants straggling into Hungary, sullen groups of soldiers retreating across the border, and reached LwÓw as it was crashing into ruins after 14 days of steady bombing by German planes...
...biggest problem is not merely to stabilize exchange but to find it. For much of the trade given last year to the U. S., Latin Americans got the bulk of their credits from sales of wheat, coffee, meat and other agricultural products to Europe. Today, with the German market gone, and the European neutrals hamstrung by the war's disruption of shipping, Latin America has to find somewhere to sell her goods in order to get money to buy from the U. S. For the present the war needs of the Allies will help fill...
First boom signs: Penguin Books (6d.) were swamped with orders. Book clubs and rental libraries reported big new enrollments. Large stocks moved to libraries for evacuated children, army camps (favorites: Gone With the Wind, Northwest Passage, Anthony Adverse, the Bible). A brisk trade was reported in German dictionaries, purchased by British soldiers who, they said, want to be able to read the signs to Berlin...