Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evident that some front would soon be blazing. Despite the fact that snow blankets many sectors of the front and that many of his troops are war-weary after eight counteroffensives to retake the Ebro River salient. Generalissimo Franco is determined to throw everything he has into one Big Push before Britain's Prime Minister meets Premier Mussolini at Rome early in January. A Franco success, such as his smash-through to the Mediterranean last April, would give II Duce a good talking point on which to demand belligerent rights for the Insurgents from Mr. Chamberlain...
...naturally rich. Economically this territory is important to both Germany and England because it is a source of raw materials and a market for manufactured products. Politically it is no less important. Germany would like to control it because it is the stile across the Fiihrer's push to the East. Britain would like to check German control of it because she wants no eastern pushing across the Balkan Peninsula into the British-dominated markets of the Near East...
...will run from Breslau in German Silesia south to Vienna and thus provide a direct and short motor connection between the eastern part of Germany and the recently-acquired Ostmark.* The road, to be completed in 1940, is the first section of a great highway which Germany intends to push through the Balkans into Asia Minor, via Belgrade, Sofia and Istanbul, as part of her drive to the East. Along the Czechoslovak strip, police, customs and traffic control will be in German hands. The two parts of Czechoslovakia will be connected by tunnels and overpasses. >So completely has Czechoslovakia come...
Without the formality of jury trial, the defendants, Joseph Ambrose '42, James M. Blumgarton '42, Frank A. Pemberton, Jr. ;42, and John S. Caylor '42, were returned the $10 bonds they had posted, and walked out of court free men. The Legion will not push the case...
Since inter-House discussions would be unwieldy and difficult to organize, it remains up to the separate Houses to push forward these meetings. Not only would regular discussions destroy some of the dangers of over-specialization but also they would constitute a positive intellectual contribution to the college on the part of the Houses. Though unspectacular as yet, these meetings have great potentialities which if realized would represent another triumph for the tutorial system at Harvard...