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Word: neveral (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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England, which had trouble in Spain during the Peninsular Wars and never seems to have forgotten it, has been strongly suggesting the country as a made-to-order bridgehead and military base on the continent, "secure behind the Pyreness." Many military men disagree. Air and naval installations on the Iberian Peninsula would be under constant short-range bombing attack and exceptionally tough to supply; the Pyrenees are a poor barrier against airborne invasion, and nowhere near as impregnable as the Spanish like to think. Spain is fundamentally an unattractive place from which to flight a European war. There...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Franco: No Friend | 4/14/1949 | See Source »

...album still proves that the Band is a superb, beautifully--drilled organization. It contains excellent musicians in copious number; It plays consistently well. This album is always entertaining, though never near the quality of the first...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: The Music Box | 4/14/1949 | See Source »

...however, the Committee possibly has called for a bit of needless fretting. "We feel," the report says, "that unless Administration is freed from its preoccupation with an incomplete program and comes to reconsider the more basic questions of personnel and of the incentives to actual learning, General Education may never become more than expensive half success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poskanzer Report: II | 4/13/1949 | See Source »

...deadly tired of the male odors and loud talk of the army barracks. More than anything else, he wanted to find a complaisant girl. For Lisa, the girl he found in Rome, it was a case of surrender or hunger. But Robert and Lisa soon found that love could never be simple, not even when it was sold by a desperate Italian girl to a lonely G.I. in a tawdry room on Rome's Via Flaminia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love in Rome | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...gloomy cavern on the shore of a long-vanished prehistoric lake, was the scene of the finding, which presents botanists with a treasure that has been the goal of scores of botanical expeditions. Two earlier groups from the University's Botanical Museum located varieties with primitive characteristics, but never found wild corn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scientists Find 4000-Year-Old Corn | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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