Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago who thought we would be spending our vacation in historic Boston? But here we are. smart girls explore its historic by-ways until 11 o'clock; other girls study each night in hopes that some happy day they, too, may be privileged. All girls learn the inner workings of a"45" those of us with weak hands hope for a husky guard, and those of us with weak hearts hope we carry them for purposes of morale only...
...Bulgaria and Crete in the south into rear-guard battlefields. As in Sicily, limited German forces would fight for those lands-not to hold them indefinitely, but to make invasion as slow and expensive as possible for the Allies. Weltwoche said that the Germans hoped only to hold an inner citadel-Germany itself, a part of Holland, and the eastern borderlands of the Ukraine, Poland, Hungary and Rumania...
...indeed the German plans they were plans of despair when they were conceived. Now, as never before, the Russians threaten the citadel from the east (see col. 2). The Allies move upon it, though slowly, by land and by air from the west and the south. In the end, inner Europe cannot be a citadel for the Germans. It can only be a trap...
Died. Sir Patrick Duncan, 72, Governor General of the Union of South Africa since 1937; of cancer; in Pretoria. A grey-thatched, firm-lipped Scot, Duncan studied at Oxford's Balliol College, became a barrister of the Inner Temple, entered colonial service in 1894. He rose to be Minister of the Interior, Public Health and Education (1921-24), was the first South African citizen to become Governor General...
...bombs on Messina and Palermo crippled that system. Coningham's medium bombers, light bombers and fighter-bombers struck its inner vitals-at Enna, Leonforte and Caltagirone, at the tunnels which pierce the Sicilian hills and offer rare opportunities to block the rail lines. By week's end the R.A.F. reported that the main line along the east coast from Messina to Catania had been blocked, the north Coastal railway from Palermo to Messina cut in one place, the winding line from Palermo across Sicily to Syracuse "destroyed...