Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stuff. Last week the British and French were again up against a Siegfried Stellung (see p. 28).* Four hundred and fifty miles long, it begins at the point where the Rhine enters The Netherlands, parallels the Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg frontiers about eight miles behind the Our, Sauer and Moselle Rivers, then skirts the Saar to the French border, then turns west and south along the Rhine and through the Black Forest until it reaches the Swiss frontier at Lake of Constance (see map). It has been under construction for three years and at one time last spring half...
...mere idea but a reality, transcending the nations. It is created by the will of God, not by the will of men. For this reason faith in the Universal Church is the very basis of work towards a better order. . . ." The board concluded its statement with a seven-point program for the church in time of war. It urged...
...private yards), were invited to bid on about 152,000 tons of new shipping (approximately 1,700,000 man-hours of work are required to build an average 6,400-ton cargo vessel). Bethlehem Steel increased the working hours of 20,000 employes at its Sparrows Point (Maryland) shipbuilding division, at Staten Island planned to hire 2,000 more...
Fortnight ago three freighters, crammed with 60-odd fighting planes for Britain and France, cast off from the Bollards at San Pedro, Calif., and stood out past Point Fermin to sea. Before they passed Catalina two Canadian destroyers steamed up with bones in their teeth, slowed to freighter's pace, headed south in convoy toward the Panama Canal...
...three-generation story about the Kikuyu tribesmen of East Africa, written from the native point of view, it particularly delighted British reviewers by a mixture of sympathy and picturesqueness not unlike that in the novels of Julia Peterkin. In their primitive state (the subject of some 100 early pages) the Kikuyu people were well-built, well-adjusted savages, who observed strict tribal laws combining communal ownership of land with private initiative as regards goats and wives, the latter being worth about 30 of the former plus a batch of sugar-cane beer. Occasionally they fought a battle with the tall...