Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became Spain's Balearic Islands, strung out in the Mediterranean about 90 miles off the coastline from Valencia to Barcelona. Of the three largest Balearics, the two westerly ones, Iviza and Mallorca, have been held by the Rightists. Mallorca, with its deep harbor of Palma, has been a main base, especially for sir, of the Italian expeditionary forces. Minorca, the most easterly island, held by Leftists, momentarily expected to be raided last week after the bombing of Valencia and Barcelona...
...jammed with noncombatant refugees from Rightist-held Malaga. Almeria had nothing to do with the raids on Mallorca, but Almeria is on the section of Spanish coast that the German navy legally patrols. At dawn following the Deutschland bombing, five Nazi warships flying Swas tika battle flags from their main trucks drew up off the harbor entrance. Flagship was reported to be the Admiral Scheer, sister of the Deutschland. For over an hour this squadron proceeded to pour high explosive shells into the stucco & light brick houses of Almeria. Leftist shore batteries replied until they ran out of ammunition. Then...
First sale on opening day was made by Dame Laura Knight, first woman ever to be on the Academy's selection committee, a famed painter of circus scenes. Dominating most of one wall in a main gallery was her massive canvas called London Palladium showing an unprepossessing young woman in evening dress watching the Crazy Gang, well known London vaudeville team, from a stage box. Manager Gerald Black of the Palladium snapped it up for $6,000 to embellish his lobby...
...single-decked suspension with two piers, the bridge has a total length of 9,266 ft. The main span is 4,200 ft. long, 700 ft. more than George Washing ton Bridge's centre span. The two grace ful towers are 746 ft. high, the clearance of the six-lane roadway and two passenger walks over the water, 220 ft. More intriguing than all these statistics are the allowances for the great stresses which the bridge may meet. In case a hurricane sweeps in from the sea, it can swing 21 ft. out of line without harm. When...
...There are three main divisions of the law: common or garden law, which seems to be made rather by the sun and shade than by the reasoning of man; equity, which the learned John Selden said depended upon the length of the Lord Chancellor's foot; and international law, which is a device made of sand, painted to look like iron...