Word: northwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across Quincy Street is the Union, which houses the Navy dining halls and common rooms as well as the offices of the Harvard Athletic Association, where one obtains tickets for football games. English A students will have many occasions to visit Warren House to the rear of the Union. Northward on Quincy Street is the Fogg Art Museum...
...eyes for a Japanese blast at Siberia. More than rumor said that Japan had agreed to strike Siberia when Germany reached the Volga (see p. 36). Japan's retreats in China (see p. 38) were suspicious. Perhaps many of them were by design, to release troops northward...
...British have more enemies than friends among the 4,500,000 Iraqi; it took British bombs and troops to suppress a brief, pro-Nazi regime in Iraq last year. In Iraq and in adjoining central Persia is the bulk of Sir Henry's Tenth Army, poised to turn northward if the Germans come down from the Caucasus, west if they approach from the Mediterranean and Egypt...
...some 13,000,000 barrels of oil monthly. There would be no direct shipping route to the main Red Army, but there would still be a waterway up the Caspian to the Ural River, another across the Caspian to the Krasnovodsk terminus of the Turk-Sib railway, which loops northward through Central Asia to Samara and the Middle Volga...
...Germans had moved fast, ten miles a day recently, a pace that in two more weeks would bring them to the river. Thus far Marshal Timoshenko had not tried to make a stand in this area. Evidently he had withdrawn his main forces northward to avoid being trapped in the Caucasus. Somewhere on the east-sloping steppes a stand now seemed inevitable...