Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found enough gold, copper, coal and oil to pay the whole reparations bill. It is but natural that Dr. Schacht should cast eyes upon these resources, that he should remember East Prussia, now cut off from Germany by the "corridor" which Poland was given to connect her with the sea. On the other hand the "Iron Man" might have had common sense enough not to wave two red rags before two bulls. That was exactly what he did by so much as mentioning the "corridor" to France (friend of Poland) or alluding to "colo-nies" in the presence of Britain...
...Noble enterprises in this direction have been attempted." said the King. "My Government has already made clear what their viewpoint is. But disarmament has remained to this day merely a generous aspiration, contradicted by continuous arming on land, on sea...
...solemn morning in 1851, that the first Augustinians of the Assumption took their public vows. The vigorous doubt of Voltaire and the science of Diderot had troubled Catholic France. The Assumptionist Fathers swore to combat irreligion in Europe, to missionize in the East. From the Balkans to the Dead Sea they established their posts. Shrewd, they learned Oriental languages, heard confessions in German, Greek, Turkish. Some-times they adopted and altered slightly alien rituals to make their gospel first familiar, then embraced. In Jerusalem they erected the Hôtelrie de Notre Dame de France. Here in 1893 was held...
...jostling, leaping fish is the quiet of the Yukon's upper pools. Swimming stoutly against the current, it will take them all summer to reach the headwaters. On the long trip (2,000 miles) they eat nothing, slowly burning up the fat oil they have amassed in the sea. In the autumn they reach the clear, placid upper reaches of the river. There the males, haggard, savage from starvation, tear each other with fierce beaklike jaws, fighting for mates. The female scoops a nest in the sand, squeezes into it from her abdomen several thousand ripe eggs. Swimming over...
...eatable qualities. He pointed at what all experienced salmon-eaters know: that no dyed-in-the-wool salmon-devourer will ever be afflicted with "deficiency diseases" (scurvy, beriberi, and goitre) because salmon flesh contains a high percentage of iodine, best prophylactic against such diseases. An orchestra played sea songs and chanteys "to carry to listeners a romantic conception, of the salmon industry." There were no references to cats...