Word: outpost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhine. Starting with dozens, the Nazi raids increased to as many as 80 in a single night, in such strength that even the tough Moroccans in the Wissembourg sector had to call for artillery support to blow the raiders back. The Germans tried a new system, approaching each French outpost in separate columns or files, to bomb it with grenades from three sides simultaneously. These raids, by seasoned troops, were interpreted by the French as "information please" parties (TIME, Nov. 27), to take the place of air reconnaissance which lately cost the Germans many a plane.* But the French took...
Both Joe Koufman and Gene Lovett served fair warning yesterday in the Jayvee-C team scrimmage that they have returned to the fight for Varsity terminal posts. Neither outpost candidate made the trip to Chicago because of injuries, but both are ready now. Loren MacKinney seems pretty solidly entrenched at the left wing, but either Koufman or Lovett has a chance to edge out operatives Kelley or Devine for the other...
Night. A railway station at Cernauti, Rumania, onetime outpost of German culture in the East, now a hurtling trade centre at the base of the Carpathian Mountains. Rolling hills in the background, overshadowed by the black mass of a 3,000-ft. peak; the Prut River flowing nearby. Enter Colonel Josef Beck, Foreign Minister of Poland. No longer the same man as in Act I and II, the Colonel is haggard, sleepless; the sardonic elegance that marked his appearance has vanished. With him is Marshal Smigly-Rydz, Commander in Chief of the Polish Armies, equally haggard, desperate...
...alike twiddled, hoped that once war got in the groove, radio might again be able to sing for its supper. Radio Normandie has a snug little building around a corner from BBC's showy (and now sandbagged) Broadcasting House. Like everybody else in London, Radio Normandie's outpost dug in, fitted up a sub-basement air-raid shelter complete with telephones, desks, transcription machinery, eating, sleeping, toilet facilities for its staff of 200; a phonograph for dull hours...
Before plunging into the KFAR project, Cap Lathrop did considerable prospecting. He located every mine and outpost in the vast Alaskan interior within KFAR's expected range, which is more than the U. S. Government has ever done. For expected sponsors the census showed a potential audience of some 25,000, with a per capita buying power five times that of the average U. S. consumer and very little else to do evenings but listen to a radio. Expecting a short-wave network connection with some U. S. chain, KFAR nevertheless intends to broadcast home-made programs for Alaska...