Word: junction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great diamond-shaped area that begins around Marietta, at the junction of the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers and which, spreading westward, reaches north to around Red Wing, Minn., south to the Republican River in Kansas and west to the foothills of the Wild Cat Mountains in western Nebraska-throughout this region corn stood from eight to twelve feet high, and the estimate stood at 2,523,092,000 bushels-53% of the world's total...
Baranowicze, Rowne, Tarnopol, Zaleszczyki were all invaded at once. Out of the raving wilderness that was Poland came word that Marshal Smigly-Rydz diverted a whole Army corps from Wilno to confront the Russians in the northeast, that a hot fight ensued at Molodeczno, rail junction between Wilno and Minsk. Elsewhere opposition was nominal or minus. Refugees over the Rumanian border described the new invaders as traveling peaceably along the same Ukrainian roads as the fugitive Poles. It was a mass movement of occupation rather than of conquest, although performed the same way as the crashing German onslaught-mechanized forces...
Germany's armies from East Prussia, with the shortest distance to go, were the slowest to blast their way to Warsaw's outer defenses. Impeded at the Narew River after taking Plonsk and Pultusk, they were halted last week at the Bug. At the junction of the Narew and the Vistula, the fort city of Modlin had yet to fall at week's end. But artillery diverted for this defense weakened the Poles on the southwest. Smashing into Cracow, Germany's armies of the south swept on into the Industrial Triangle to take Sandomierz, Poland...
...shadow of Japanese planes stayed over Mona Gardner on her eleventh-hour reconnaissance of three menaced Eastern empires (French, Dutch and British). Everywhere she found distrust of the Japanese, little evidence of their effective penetration except the inevitable Japanese photographic shop in every strategic railway junction, harbor, mining town...
...will go to Laconia, Plymouth, Waterville Valley (leave bus at West Campton Post Office on going trip and entrain at Campton railroad station on return trip), North Woodstock, Lincoln, Lisbon, Littleton, White River Junction (Tamworth, Wonalancet, Chocorus), Conway, North Conway, Intervale (Jackson, Bartlett, Glen, Pinkham Notch...