Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commander in Chief, Lieut. General Hugo Viktor Osterman, personally took the field on the Soviet frontier of Finland, a frontier of such numberless lakes, forests and marshes that if Russia should choose to strike with mechanized forces these would have to roll directly up from Leningrad into the narrow, flat Finnish terrain between the Gulf and Lake Laatokka, Europe's largest lake. On this strategic gateway Finland has massed her only heavy fortifications, concrete pillbox forts and tank traps which Finnish soldiers last week worked furiously to strengthen...
...strong Williams team, a narrow field, a ball lighter than the one to which they are accustomed, and a high wind all added together to bring defeat in an overtime period to the Crimson soccer team Saturday afternoon, 3 to 2, at Williamstown...
Concerning the widespread protest aroused by the dismissal of the ten assistant professors, the memorandum says: "The men lot go were commonly "runners up" for permanent positions--men who lost out in competition, occasionally by very narrow margins...
Turkish Angle. The big diplomatic finesse which the Soviet Dictator was quietly developing in Moscow last week concerned the question of the Dardanelles. If the Turks should permit a British and French fleet to slip into the Black Sea through this narrow waterway, the Allies could then firmly bolster up Rumania and go far toward bluffing the Balkans into halting their supplies of raw materials now going regularly to Germany, notably Rumanian oil up the Danube...
Kirkland, which shaded out Winthrop by a narrow margin in first downs to win the coveted championship last year, is going to have another tough struggle with the Puritans this Fall. The Deacons have a squad of 32 while Winthrop has turned out 25 strong...