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Word: northerns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest mass flights in modern history came to an end one afternoon last week when 40,000 soldiers of the once-fine Catalonian Army and a few straggling civilian refugees evacuated the Spanish border village of Puigcerda, crossed into France and closed the last gate to northern Loyalist Spain behind them. A few fanatical anarchists committed suicide by staying behind and fighting the Insurgents to the end, but at exactly 2:40 p. m. Friday, Feb. 10, a handful of Rebel troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco nailed their red & gold banner to a telegraph pole at the edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Last Retreat | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...illegal Irish Republican Army, determined to harass Great Britain into giving the six provinces of Northern Ireland to Eire, intensified its underground terrorist activities last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: S-Plot | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...terrorist campaign scored its first victory when the Northern Ireland Government reluctantly announced that the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Kent to Belfast had been indefinitely postponed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: S-Plot | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...from the Philippines to Singapore, should the U. S. and Britain ever act in concert in the East. It gives Japan a better jumping off place toward the oil-rich Netherlands Indies than it has ever had before. The Japanese Empire now stretches 2,400 miles from its farthest northern to its farthest southern outposts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Japan Steps South | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...cold wave is expected to ease up by this afternoon; and, with increasing cloudiness tonight, there is a possibility of light snow in northern New England on Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Conditions | 2/17/1939 | See Source »

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