Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some military experts have long thought that, rather than a suicidal attack on the subterranean forts, tank traps and concrete pillboxes that guard the French and Belgian frontiers, German tacticians might attempt a lightning flank attack through the lightly armed Netherlands...
...wont to consider such fire and smoke as dangerous to democratic procedure. Others cough and cry a little and move on their blithesome way. But there is still another group that knows that conferences come and students may go but arguments go on forever. This group represents the advance guard of any community. It knows that smoke, fire and noise can be something as useful as they are dangerous. It realizes that nothing embryonic is a success or failure. It knows that indifference has never won any battles and that debate is healthy as long as we have real problems...
...Government's new plan is to increase the strength of the forces of the field Territorials, the British citizen Army (much like the U. S. National Guard), from 130,000 to 340,000. Together with the regular Army, which is expected soon to reach 250,000, this will mean that Britain's land forces trained and equipped for Continental service will number some 600,000 men. Instead of 19 divisions that will be ready for immediate service in case of a war on the Continent, there will be 32. The anti-aircraft Territorials will be upped...
Wary after threats from all nine sentenced men, London last week put a strong guard around the house of the judge who presided at the trial. But I. R. A. terror, like poison ivy, breaks out in strange places. Late that night, motorists and pedestrians going sleepily home over Hammersmith Bridge, the farthest up-Thames within London, were rocked by a sudden Boom! Suspension chains snapped, a support-girder sagged, windows 100 yards away on the north bank crashed to the street. Bam! In mid-bridge another blast shook the 52-year-old structure from tower to tower. The whole...
...long-term Government-bond speculation, Expert Porter is bullish: ". . . Whatever occurs, holders of Government securities may be confident that the nation's fiscal authorities will guard their interests in the market so long as the Treasury faces a tremendous program of debt refunding." When she is asked about short-term prospects, she quotes the forecast of an anonymous financier: "The stock market, sir, will fluctuate...