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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white brethren, Walter Merguson has yet to see the front. So far he has had to content himself with visits to French colonial encampments. But he has influential friends in the Government (including the Ministry of Information) who are not blind to the service a Negro correspondent can render France's relations with her colonies. When black troops go to the front, Walter Merguson expects to go with them...
...lenitive" 19th Century giants as Trollope and Dickens. Publishers adopted slogans like "Always carry your gas mask; always carry a book." The London Library resolved to stay open. Publisher Geoffrey Faber publicly suggested that writing a book was "the most valuable piece of national service which an author can render...
Ausley also announced that the Advocate will employ World War camouflage, "calculated not so much to render the building invisible as to disguise the direction, in which it is moving...
...Club's activities, men are brought into personal, rather than purely academic contact with the intellectual and spiritual life of a people. It is hoped that such study and such experience will render members more able to form judgments for their times and their lives...
...tide. U. S. mines used in World War I had 35-ft. antennae attached to their horns which greatly increased their contact range. For harbor defense, "controlled" mines are fitted with electrically charged detonators discharged by a key from shore, or capable of being switched off to render them harmless to friendly ships. The harbor at Southampton is now guarded by a curtain of mines which is drawn aside to let friendly ships enter...