Word: nakedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The report summarizes the accomplishments of more than 150,000 projects up to Oct. 1, 1937. Visible to the naked eye were 11,106 new public buildings (including 115 new armories), 43,870 miles of new highways, 19,272 new bridges, more than 11,500 miles of new roadside drainage...
Last week twelve war planes from China (said by the Japanese to be Soviet planes) finally flew across the 120-mile-wide Formosa Strait, escorted by pursuit planes, and rained bombs on Japanese-owned Formosa. They flew so high that accurate bombing was impossible. From the ground the attacking craft...
In the third century B.C., a Greek mathematician named Archimedes jumped from his bath, rushed home naked and dripping, shouting "Eureka, eureka!" He had just discovered an important physical principle. In 1937 A.D., a German-Jewish mathematician named Samuel Isaac Krieger, who was taking a mineral bath near Buffalo, N...
If the British Empire were destroyed, the Führer went on pointedly to say, the United Kingdom would soon enough thirst for overseas territory as Germany thirsts today. The English did not secure their colonies by holding democratic plebiscites among the natives, continued the Chancellor, "but through naked, brutal...
This adventure he related in a book, To Lhasa in Disguise. With a few Tibetan servants, he climbed through the wild, snowy passes of the Himalayas. There, in the bitter cold, he stood naked while a companion covered his body with brown stain, squirted lemon juice into his blue eyes...