Word: main
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the main outlines of the Führer's and professor's plans had been divulged. One of Europe's newest capitals, Berlin's history even as an insignificant village dates back only 700 years as compared to London's 2,000, Paris' 2,050 years. Development of Berlin began seriously only with the Great Elector of Brandenburg, who before his death in 1688 had raised the city's population from 8,000 to 20,000 mainly by offering asylum to political and religious refugees. In the early 18th Century, Soldier...
Seniors will receive their diplomas in the main corridor of Sever Hall this year immediately after the Commencement exercises. This is a change from the custom of many years to distribute the diplomas at Memorial Hall, and is caused by the fact that the Class of 1913 will hold its Commenceday day spread in Memorial Hall rather than in the Yard...
...main battle front at Chengchow, 300 miles on a direct rail line north of Hankow, the Japanese forces last week made only small gains. Retreating Chinese had cut dykes on the Yellow River north of the city and the saffron waters of "China's Sorrow" poured over the low-lying, sandy ground outside Cheng-chow, bogged down Japan's mechanized advance...
...emphasize the picture's incontrovertible thesis-that civilian populations suffer in modern war-but since her sweetheart (Henry Fonda) is in the army fighting to defend Castelmare, audiences are not likely to be bowled over by Miss Carroll's change of sentiment. Otherwise, Blockade's main innovation lies in the fact that it concentrates not on the fighting in the front lines but on its consequences behind them. Glimpses of peasants fleeing from their farms, townsfolk with-pinched faces huddled beside ruined buildings or staring forlornly out to sea, make up its most effective sequences. As such...
...omnibus volume, illustrated with 14 romantic paintings by N. C. Wyeth, part real-estate ad, part history, part guide book, all of it unadulterated Mainiac bragging, Trending Into Maine aims belligerently at these main points: 1) that "there are no better people anywhere in the world" than State-of-Mainers, 2) that writers who call Maine natives "dour, sour, cautious, calculating yokels," are dirty liars, and 3) that Maine voters are still the true defenders of liberty, and to hell with Roosevelt...