Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Piccadilly Circus one day last week newsboys were heard crying: "Step right up and get it-TIME, the banned book!" Many Londoners stepped up, because, only a fortnight before, much had been made of the banning of TIME in England...
...British still expect London to be strafed in event of war, but they are confident that much as its buildings may be damaged, with its new defenses life cannot be made impossible in the metropolis. They are certain that if London is not wrecked in two weeks, it will never be wrecked and the Germans will lose the war. Other areas which are virtually certain of becoming battlegrounds because of the airplane are the great industrial areas of the British Midlands and the German Ruhr. These would be battles of industrial attrition, productive of great wreckage but effective...
...mask a drive over one of the three main routes into Spain. If, as is more likely, they decided to quarantine Spain for the duration of the war, a comparative handful of French soldiers could be shuttled from end to end of the Pyrenees holding at bay a much larger number of Spaniards who would not have the advantage of such a transportation network...
...Dutch at Fontenoy in 1745. There Waterloo was fought and Napoleon finally defeated in 1815. The Flanders Plain is protected to the East by the Belgian hills and fortresses of Liege and Namur. It is protected to the northeast by Belgium's new Albert Canal, built as much for defense as for commerce, and beyond that by low-lying Dutch country that can be flooded if necessary. But even with fortresses and canals and emergency breaches in the dikes, the Flanders Plain offers the least difficult road to Paris and the French channel ports. It is a road that...
...forever the open range, and behind these fences developed a different economic and social order." Both panels are nine by 20 feet, painted in the standard Curry colors-reds for Oklahoma's dust and soil, gold for sunlight, green for far-off fields of grain. Curry considers them much finer than his Department of Justice murals, finished...