Word: landed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago Generaloberst Walther von Brauchitsch was little more than a name outside Germany, an untried general who was supposed to be a good organizer but no theorist, whose rise to the position of Commander in Chief of the German Land Forces had been due at least partly to his willingness to back Adolf Hitler where more experienced generals would not. This week Brauchitsch was a name to put beside those of Moltke, Ludendorff and Schlieffen: not only was he Germany's No. 1 Krieger (warrior), but he had fostered, planned and led the Blitzkrieg-and proved...
...French communiques mentioned Ger man prisoners for the first time. By making them tell what areas they had orders to avoid, the captors located land mines...
Meanwhile, the war touched schools in many another land...
...when modern kids are only eligible to be Tenderfoot Scouts, Dan and his gang were running the Union pickets, ducking Minie balls in No Man's Land along the Licking River outside Covington, sneaking into Union trenches, sniping at a Rebel gang across the river with rocks, scrap iron, shotguns loaded with nails and gravel...
...particularly delighted British reviewers by a mixture of sympathy and picturesqueness not unlike that in the novels of Julia Peterkin. In their primitive state (the subject of some 100 early pages) the Kikuyu people were well-built, well-adjusted savages, who observed strict tribal laws combining communal ownership of land with private initiative as regards goats and wives, the latter being worth about 30 of the former plus a batch of sugar-cane beer. Occasionally they fought a battle with the tall, handsome Masai. Their medicine man shrewdly advised them on all important matters...