Word: river
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish war front burst into sudden activity last week when a powerfully reinforced Rightist Army moved forward against the Leftist-held Ebro River salient. It was the eighth in a series of costly Rightist attempts to regain the narrow, mountainous strip of land west of the Ebro taken by the Leftists in late July. Long ago the salient ceased to have much strategic value. Committed to retaking it, however, Generalissimo Francisco Franco sent general after general to drive the Leftists back across the river, is estimated to have spent the lives of 70,000 men there since early August...
Belgium did not steal the Congo. Famed for its Pygmies and the Congo River (longest in Africa, second longest in the world), the Congo, a dank jungle-about one-third the size of the U. S.-lying astride the equator, is valuable to Belgium as a source of copper, rubber, palm oil. The river mouth was discovered about 1482 by a Portuguese, Dioga Cào, but for three centuries little colonization was done. In the middle 19th Century intrepid British explorers pushed into the interior and in 1873 famed Explorer David Livingstone died while charting the river...
...There'd be the smell of new clover hay and cornflowers in the air and by'n'by the fire would get low and go out and you'd see the fireflies . . . and way off somewhere -t'hell 'n' gone over the river-you'd hear a cowbell...
Hard runs along the river and up over the Arlington Hills are being held this week as the undefeated Cross Country team is putting the finishing touches on its practice for the Intercollegiate meet in New York on Monday...
...train slowed up for the Charles River Station I pressed him again. "It it too Earle to say whether the Democrate are leading with their Quinn? From the Caulfields of the East to the open Miles of the West they are having a Trft fight. Farley is said to have cried 'O' Hara' when they brought him the Tydings...