Word: great
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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...
...great that efficiency was Adolf Hitler last week revealed in his speech to the members of the Reichstag. "As I am now about to make known to you the number of our dead and wounded," he said, "I request that you rise from your seats. . . . According to the casualty list of up to the soth of September 1939, which will not change materially, the total losses for the Army, Navy and Air Force, including officers, are as follows: 10,572 killed; 30,322 wounded; 3,404 missing. Unfortunately, of those missing a certain number who fell into Polish hands will...
After the review Herr Hitler reverently visited Belvedere Palace, where the great Josef Pilsudski lived and died. Back at the airport Hitler proved that what had made him thoughtful had not made him either remorseful or humble-or accurate. "Gentlemen," he said to a cluster of reporters, "you have seen for yourselves what criminal folly it was to try to defend this city in a military way, and how that defense collapsed after only two days. I only wish certain statesmen in other countries who seem to want to turn the whole of Western Europe into such a shambles...
Those who have said that a new war would have no heroes reckoned without such as Stefan ("The Stubborn") Starzynski, Mayor of Warsaw, a truly great fighter, very marrow of the very bone of Warsaw's hopeless 20-day defense. Like a captain who goes down with his ship, like a wild animal which perishes defending its nest, Mayor Starzynski meant what he said when he cried over Warsaw's radio: "We are fighting to death." Last week, as it must even to the greatest men, death came to Stefan the Stubborn. Stubbornly, he died...
When the last Armistice was flashed, a minesweeping force sped into the Dardanelles and in 24 hours removed 600 British and enemy mines, to let the fleet move in to Istanbul. At home, Britain's mine-sweeping fleet contained 17,000 ships, with Great Grimsby, the fishing port at the mouth of the Humber River, as their main base. Shallow-draft fishing boats, motor launches, even paddle steamers were pressed into service. In the first two months of that war, for every two mines swept up, one trawler was lost. By 1918, the rate was 80 mines swept...