Word: salient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spot to strike next, last week the Rightists struck Madrid. Taking advantage of the shift of thousands of Leftist Spain's best veteran troops to other more pressing areas, Rightist troops drove their way into Parque del Oeste, succeeded in momentarily scaring Leftist defenders of the University City salient...
WAGNER: SIEGFRIED (Excerpts edited by Leopold Stokowski; Philadelphia Orchestra; Stokowski conducting; Victor: 5 parts). Typical Stokowski abridgement preserving a few of the opera's salient pages...
...Salient findings...
...investigating committee, headed by Assistant Commissioner John Cayce Morrison, sympathetic to progressive education, also tried to measure how well Roslyn was getting along toward good social and moral habits, an understanding of the world, "joy and happiness." Last week Dr. Morrison produced a 56-page report, announced these salient findings...
...People's Army. In canceling that victory last week General Franco did not himself win a major victory. For the expenditure of two months' time many lives and much materiel- none of which he could well spare-all he had to show was a wider Teruel salient (now containing 2,500 square miles against 2,125 square miles three months...