Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Women whose chief duty was to keep the home fires burning-somewhere-had their troubles too. On to hard-driven wives of low-pay workers went the added strain of higher food and clothing prices. They simply did with even less amusements, scarce anyway since the blackouts. Toughest economic time...
There was nothing else for Latvian Foreign Minister Vilhelms Munters to do but hustle to Moscow this week with a delegation empowered to sign. This obviously cut two ways: on the one hand Russia has taken efficient measures to exclude the Germans from Estonia and Latvia; on the other hand...
Compared with China's 24 provinces, Tweedledum and Tweedledee are easy to keep straight. There are Hupeh, Hopeh. There are Shensi, Shansi. There are also Hunan, Honan. To say nothing of Kansu, Kiangsu, Kiangsi, Kwangsi, Kwangtung (not to be confused with Kwantung, in Manchukuo).* When the Japanese renewed military...
Fact is there was nothing strange about the correspondents' impressions, and probably a minimum of censor coloration. The potency of the German positions is unquestioned, and official French communiques for the days the newsmen were on tour confirmed the quietness which they reported. Fact also is that this war...
Than Captain Liddell Hart, no other ten military critics caused more stir in the 20 years following World War I. He studied the campaigns of 1914-18, emerged with the conclusion that the generals on both sides had bungled fantastically: wasted millions of lives, exhausted their national patrimonies, achieved virtually...