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Dates: during 1930-1939
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*Quickly dispelled by experts was the popular fable that magnetic mines can be drawn bodily to the victim's steel hull, by their own magnetism.
Newer and distinctly more practical for the impoverished Poles is the pleasant unhistoric chateau in which President Raczkiewicz will reside, surrounded by spreading vegetable gardens and big cow pastures. With any luck, the new Polish colony of 75 in Angers will be able to grow much of its own food...
Jinnah's own life has been a series of coat-turnings. He was born a Hindu, became a Moslem. He began his public life as an ardent Nationalist, later developed into a rank communalist (in favor of local elections according to religious majorities). Once a stanch supporter of the...
Last week Mohandas Gandhi showed that he was determined to go ahead in his anti-British campaign without Moslem Jinnah's support. He authorized a statement which even the bitterest Moslem would think reasonable: "If Britain fights for the maintenance of democracy, she must necessarily end imperialism in her...
In 1908 Cook made his own first and only "dash to the Pole." He left the land in March, trekked across the pack ice with only two Eskimos, two sleds, 26 dogs. He claimed that he reached the North Pole on April 21, spent two days taking observations of the...