Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This book is not a modern example of learned historical writing; rather it is written to be interesting and understandable to the general newspaper public. In this respect it succeeds admirably, but as such it sometimes tends toward sensationalism and over-simplification. Its main contribution, however, is that it succeeds in clarifying the recent events and reveals the fundamental issues over which each country is most concerned...
...eastern end the main floor is entirely laid, but at the other a riveting gang is still working within the basement walls on a maze of scaffolding above murky pools of water on the floor...
...equally submissive Nanking puppets. At one point north of Suchow the Japanese advance guard was stalled 15 miles from the Lunghai Railway. At another point south of Suchow a Japanese column was reported within 20 miles of the line. The southern force was small, however. Between it and the main southern army were scores of miles of hostile territory. A gap of at least a hundred miles had to be filled before the two puppet governments could meet...
...three main sections of the pact provide: 1) Britain is to transfer to Eire without reservation or compensation the three deep-water naval stations of Lough Swilly, Bere Haven and Cobh (Queenstown) which since 1921 have been maintained on Irish soil. 2) The six-year-old dispute over land annuities (guaranteed absentee Irish landlords by Britain after their estates were expropriated) is to be settled by the lump payment to Britain of $50,000,000. 3) The two nations agree to raze their retaliatory tariff walls built up since the land annuities squabble began in 1932. The pact will...
Beginning today the Boston Elevated Buses running between, Allston, Harvard Square, and Union Square Sommerville will stop on signal at Gate 8, the main ticket entrance to Soldiers Field, as well as the present signal stop at Gate...