Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tiny country. British courts of law ceased to function in all but the larger cities. Effective British government was confined to the boundaries of new Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa. Daily trains to Egypt operated only thrice weekly, and then under armed guard. Arson, murder, wanton destruction made the Holy Land a land of terror, reducing Britain's prestige in the Near East to its lowest point in history...
...narrow strip separating the Czech Army lines from the German Army's advance lines in Sudetenland last week reported the most tragic aftermath of the Sudeten Settlement. Huddled in ditches or scrabbling in the fields for stray potatoes missed by the harvesters in this no-man's-land were hundreds of desperate Jews...
...Brno, 150 Jews were in the same plight. Smaller groups, many stricken with influenza, dotted the area. Carloads of food sent by Prague sympathizers were turned back at Czech Army lines. One refugee, a Breclav physician, went insane. Czech and German passersby, crossing the no-man's-land, defied the authorities and tossed into the ditches what food they could sneak through...
Another factor, be feels, "is the extent to which it has been possible to set up a real industrial base in Szochuan, sufficient to supply some sort of army in the field. This is naturally linked with other unanswered items such as the condition of the land supply routes from Western China to Russia and to Burma...
...most famed of the Norse voyages was that of adventurous young Leif Ericsson ("Leif the Lucky") who started from Norway to Greenland in 1000 A.D., but-according to Historian William Hovgaard-"was driven far to the southwest, and finally made land on the coast of America, probably near Cape Cod. Leif sent out two Scotch runners to explore the country, and these men brought back grapes and some wheat-like grasses." Leif called his new country Vineland. Next year he sailed west again from Greenland, passed "Helluland" (probably Baffin Land), "Markland" (probably Nova Scotia), and came again to Vineland where...