Word: river
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successful counterattacks of this nature had carried the fighting to German soil on the west, in the neighborhood of Breslau and, in the north, over the East Prussian border below Allenstein. For this week, a major battle loomed as the Poles fell back upon prepared positions along the Narew River...
...Czecho-Slovakia), Poles embraced them at their new common border, for Hungary is traditionally Poland's friend. Much depends for Poland on Hungary's continued neutrality, for only by marching around through Hungary, unless he fights through from Cracow to Lwów, can Hitler sever the artery (river, railroad, broad highway) by which France and Britain may give Poland blood transfusions via the Mediterranean...
...correspondent. Spain in Cuba seemed to him a model of all that Imperial rule should not be: irresponsible, wasteful, harsh, above all vindictive and vengeful. In India too he pondered (meanwhile playing polo, serving on the frontier, reading Gibbon, moral philosophy, history and military strategy) and after writing The River War, a description of the Sudan campaign, and a terrible novel, decided to take up literature and politics. Informing the voters of Oldham, he was rejected. He promptly left for the Boer War as a newspaper correspondent. Captured, while defending an armored train derailed by a Boer attack...
...legendary character, Kenneth Fearing has figured in far more novels than he has written. (The Hospital is his first.) In Albert Halper's Union Square he figures as the drunken poet. But, "Hell," declares Fearing, "I've been a character in some good novels"-meaning W. L. River's The Death of a Young Man, Margery Latimer's This Is My Body...
Grand and colorful climax to the onslaught against Yale was the second straight sweep of the four-race regatta on the silver River Thames at New London, Ct. All the crews--combination, freshman, junior varsity and varsity--won handily under the masterful coaching of Tom Bolles. The varsity's triumph was its fourth straight over Yale...