Word: scatter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Verdun!" Behind Belgium and Luxembourg, whom France trusts, Marshal Foch and General Weygand thought it sufficient to scatter only small forts, backed by what they decided to call '"Flying Fortresses." These, a post-War innovation, consist of trainloads of motorized trench digging and barbed-wire stringing machines of Gargantuan size. In three days each "Flying Fortress" is supposed to turn out a complete system of front line trenches for the sector which it covers and within a week all the "Flying Fortresses" working together can dig France in from the North Sea to the Sarre...
Eugene Talmadge, Governor of the President's "adopted" State of Georgia, was meanwhile recommending that the Government "print a lot of $10 and $20 bills and scatter them over the country by throwing the money out of airplanes...
...road named the "Chinese Eastern Railway" in a deliberate attempt by tsarist statesmen to disguise its Russian character. Built on the extra wide five-ft. Russian gauge, the C. E. R. is more than 1,000 miles long and famed for its towering, broad-beamed cars. Manchuria n ponies scatter whinnying with terror at the vast clouds of smoke belched by wood-burning C. E. R. locomotives. Chinese bandits, observing a peculiar etiquet. never blow up a C. E. R. tunnel which might be too expensive to repair. Tearing up a bit of rail here & there, they rob only...
Plain were the beauties of this arrangement. It would insulate Russia from the world with a strip of Russians of purest ray serene. It would scatter masses of ordinary Russians where their "lack of cooperation" could do the least harm. It would provide a citizen army at the border in case...
...into the picture except for the customary reference to Ph.D. specialization. If is to be hoped that some of the problems raised in this first number will be further examined. If the Critic's criticism is to penetrate beneath the surface, it will do well to concentrate rather than scatter its fire. Such problems as those suggested by Mr. Coolidge the value of tutorial work, the policy with regard to House admissions, and the possibility of a pass degree for those students desiring nothing more, have not been here disposed of. If the Critic can stimulate serious discussion of such...