Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Danish engineers, turned out by the State College of Engineering, have cement and girders in their blood. For a hundred years they have been considered among the best in the world, and their reputation increased still more when they built a harbor in Gdynia, Poland which has since become one of the crucial ports of Europe. Boatbuilding, too, comes easy to a Dane...
...flight a group of 18 Italian tanks, but in general the tide was against them. Basque lines were forced back to the third ring of steel and concrete trenches defending Bilbao. A key to the city was pine-covered Mount Solluve which commands the entrance to Bilbao harbor. Planes, dropping the same incendiary bombs that destroyed Guernica (TIME, May 10), set fire to the forests, and a series of bloody bayonet charges cleared the rest of the Leftist strength off the mountaintop. Territory still controlled by the Bilbao government was only the city itself and a few suburbs...
...world market only with such specialties as cocoa, Brazil nuts or carnauba wax (phonograph records), are merely so many jungle-choked, politically impotent drains on the Federal Treasury, this shift provoked no outcry. Rebellious Paulistas were brought to terms when the Federal Navy tied up Sao Paulo's harbor city of Santos, kept their grey-green mountains of coffee impounded until they cried for mercy...
...afternoon- sometimes so long that his wife appears to coax him home. He keeps close watch on everything at Smith and as much as possible on the world outside. While Dr. Neilson is far from satisfied with education as it is, youngsters like Chicago's Hutchins who harbor elaborate and drastic schemes for reforming it, he considers "naÏve." Chief extracurricular activity in recent years has been his editorship of Webster's New International Dictionary. Currently Smith is worried over reports that President Neilson is going to resign. That he will not do so until...
...Hugh Gibson-Doubleday, Doran ($3.50). For the well-heeled tourist, from the Pan-American diplomat, a diplomatic prospectus on "the world's most beautiful harbor city." Illustrated...