Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large share of the credit for the success of this operation should go to General Monasterio's cavalry veterans, who demonstrated so well their efficiency in mountain fighting during our northern campaign and who have again repudiated the doubts some military authorities hold regarding cavalry's usefulness in modern warfare...
...have added 250 square miles to the territory controlled by Generalissimo Francisco Franco, including 18 towns and villages and the strategically important Palomera mountain range, which dominates the main Teruel-Saragossa road on. the east...
...action of the Fuhrer fortnight ago, after cracking down on German Army leaders, of appointing as his Foreign Secretary dynamic, scheming, adventurous Joachim von Ribbentrop, was taken by the English as a storm signal for Europe, especially since last week Ribbentrop was closeted with the Dictator in his mountain retreat. With what policies should His Majesty's Government seek to steer majestically through the storm? It came to Mr. Eden's ears that Mr. Chamberlain, in commenting to other members of the Cabinet upon the policies the Foreign Secretary wished to follow, had expressed himself in language...
...worried to the point of panic last week, when they suddenly read in their papers that Chancellor Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg had not only slipped out of Austria without warning but was actually conferring in Bavaria with Adolf Hitler and new German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop at the mountain snuggery of the Fuhrer...
...realize how heavily pressed are large departments, such as History and Economics. For them to obtain Freshman tutors is like throwing Man Mountain Dean. For complete success more is required than the readjustment of departmental budgets; in those departments, particularly Classics, not essential to the Freshman curriculum, the curtailment of budgets is mandatory. To achieve a thorough system of Freshman "tutorial," some full courses should perhaps be cut to half and some staffs reduced. But, if that part of the maladjustment evil which concerns Freshmen too advanced for the curriculum can be erased, then the Faculty should not hesitate...