Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capital. Every light went out. even privileged newshawks being forbidden in the streets. For a few paralyzing hours word flashed through the city that White bombers had broken the rail line to Valencia. that Madrid was completely cut off. German and Italian aviators, the only people on the Iberian Peninsula who seemed to know how to set a bomb sight, had indeed struck the embankment of the Madrid-Valencia line in their strafing for Spain's Whites, but 90 minutes later traffic was resumed...
Last year Benito Mussolini truculently held Italy's war games on the country's North frontier. Last week he staged this year's war games in mid-peninsula among the mountain crags near Naples, which was about as near as the stormy Dictator has ever come to a Peace gesture...
...Minneapolis, Minn.; Otto W. Fick, Jr., of Oak Park, Ill.; Robert W. Harvey, of Kansas City, Mo.; Leonard C. Holvik, of Elbow Lake, Minn.; Donald F. Hornig, of Milwankee, Wis.; Ben F. McCamey, Jr., of Memphis, Tenn.; Phill C. Neal, of Oak Park, Ill.; Robert L. Peasok, of Peninsula, O.; Mathew D. R. Riddell, of Urbana, Ill.; Allen L. Snyder, of St. Louis, Mo.; and John L. Wallen, of Findlay...
...should be the victims of their colonial expansion. . . . Italian propaganda in Palestine probably exists to some extent but I see no reason why we should exchange British rule for Italian. On the contrary, the Italian occupation of Ethiopia is a threat against the two independent states on the Arabian peninsula: Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Mussolini has no chance of gaining followers among the Arabians; he has instead contributed to the speedy growth of the Pan-Arab movement...
...territorial leprosarium, commonly called "Kalaupapa," which cares for some 500 lepers, is located on a relatively small peninsula jutting off the windward coast of Molokai...