Word: river
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most passable for the Germans and here, in a drive for the higher ground at Hertogenbosch, Tilburg and Eindhoven, is where the first German assault could be expected. Gaining this foothold, the Germans could then press on to take Flushing and other coastal points south of the river deltas, enjoying the Dutch flood zone as protection for their right flank from any counterattack. The likelihood of this attack, and its obvious menace to Belgium, was believed last week to have led King Leopold to tell Queen Wilhelmina that if the Germans invaded her land, his troops would have to occupy...
...hands were assembled in the Bürgerbräu Keller, a low, barnlike building on Rosenheimerstrasse beyond the Deutsches Museum, and across the Isar River from Munich proper. Old friends greeted each other in the big, oblong beer hall-sanctum sanctorum of the Nazi Party, perhaps the best guarded room frequented by the best guarded man in the world. The veterans packed the balcony; pressed around the one central pillar supporting the entire ceiling; crowded to the very foot of the speaker's white rostrum. The big men-Hitler, Göebbels, Himmler, Frick, Hess, Ley, Rosenberg, Streicher...
...just as searching in his portrayal of character. One of his few sitters who liked himself as Eakins saw him was Walt Whitman. "Eakins' picture grows on you," said sturdy Walt. "He is not a painter, he is a force." With sober force Eakins painted wrestlers, women knitting, river scenes, surgeons' clinics...
...bunch have certainly learned something about rowing this fall. Not only the inexperienced fellows, but even those who have rowed before at placed like Exeter, St. Paul's, Browne and Nichols, Brooks, Belmont Hill, and other schools that have crews, have all learned a good deal out on the river this Fall...
...Crimson dinghy crews will represent Harvard in the fifth intercollegiate fall tilt on the Seekonk River Sunday afternoon in an eight-college race that includes Yale, Princeton, M. I. T., Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, and Williams...