Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extraordinary story reached foreign correspondents in Madrid and Valencia: several hundred Dinamiteros, bomb-throwing Asturian miners-whom Rightists hate so much that they are executed whenever captured-had slipped through the mountains by night, wormed their way through 300 miles of Rightist territory, and through another battle line, to reassemble with their officers, safe in Leftist territory...
...cross by Fascist Italy). Moving forward on the last day with a supporting column he reported that a sudden change in the weather had almost entirely melted the blinding snows of the first day of the attack, noted a pair of happy dogs gamboling ahead of the grim advancing line of skirmishers, announced that in this entire advance of 50,000 Leftist troops he saw but one foreign officer, a Bulgarian. Suddenly at mid-afternoon two truckloads of men pulled up by the roadside where Correspondent Matthews was standing...
...give itself 50%. Denounced by the Commission, the Premier wrote out and signed his resignation, left it with the King. In Court circles it was said that nothing would be done until after the New Year holidays, and by that time M. Tatarescu may conceivably have been able to line up support from other Rumanian parties for a coalition Cabinet. It was even possible that the Rumanian Nazis (who are said to shake down Mme Lupescu for such large sums-by threatening to assassinate her-that she has ironically been called their biggest backer) might team up in coalition with...
When finished, the Trans-Iranian will jog south 865 miles through the middle of the country it serves, joining the Caspian Sea with the Persian Gulf. U. S. and German firms began the line in 1927 on the route suggested by the League report. As often happens in business negotiations between representatives of civilized and more primitive peoples, the U. S. and Germans found themselves out in the cold in 1933. Danes and Swedes took over the partly completed job, parceled it out to subcontractors, some of whom were British. Forty-five thousand Persian laborers and 5,000 foreign skilled...
...main American Airlines route across the country slants off from Newark southwest through Washington and Memphis to Fort Worth, then skirts the Mexican border and enters Los Angeles from the south. American also has a line from Chicago to Los Angeles through St. Louis and Fort Worth. According to the advertisement, on these runs the average altitude is precisely 1,101 ft., and therefore is the best way to fly to Los Angeles...