Word: machen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Arthur Machen, 84, British author; in Beaconsfield, England. Deeply affected by the death of 5,000 British soldiers in the Battle of Mons (1914), he wrote a mystical short story, The Bowmen, which inspired a sincere belief in many Tommies that they had actually seen Saint George and his archers striking down the Germans on the battlefields...
...greatest prize left to modern exploration, thinks Andrews, is Amnyi Machen, a peak in eastern Tibet which may be higher than Everest. Pilots claim to have seen it from the air, but no one has measured...
Whether Schmidt's burst was bad-tempered carelessness or a balloon to find out whether neutrals were still afraid of Germany, the answer was the Zurich Volksrecht's headline: "Wir machen nicht mit!" ("We won't play ball...