Word: offing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Poland collapsed in late September, fleeing Polish forces took over the Rumanian border some 48 airplanes, 800 military trucks. This sizable lot of equipment was promptly confiscated by the Rumanian Government. By last week four nations were quarreling over the spoils, as duns were submitted to the perplexed Rumanians...
> Germany, which claimed title by right of conquest.
> Soviet Russia, which demanded half of them because the Red Army had taken half of Poland.
One day 336 years before Christ was born, old man Diogenes was sunbathing on a Corinthian hillside. Beside him was the tub in which he lived, and his only real friend, a mangy dog. Suddenly a chariot charged up, out of which stepped an elegant, arrogant young man with ruddy...
Alexander the Great was tickled by the philosopher's request, but it did not keep him from spending the rest of his short life elbowing others out of the best place in the sun. His romantic ambition drove him, leading victorious armies, from Macedonia up to the turgid Danube...