Word: seacoast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guns to French frontier guards, entered refugee camps where there was no champagne or speckled trout, only spring water and stew dipped steaming from a bucket. Unsympathetic with these soldiers who had stopped fighting, pugnacious Novelist Ernest Hemingway filed a hard-boiled dispatch from Leftist Spain's sunny seacoast: "In the far north, under the shadow of the Pyrenees, General Franco's troops have advanced steadily north and eastward in a country where positions could be held by determined graduates of any good girls' finishing school...
...beat the winter in the high mountains of Sierra Nevada put none other than bombastic Rightist "Radio General" Gonzalo Queipo de Llano off the air last week and into action for the first time in months. Neutral observers hailed this as prelude to a long delayed advance along the seacoast toward Almeria...
...Ford from which he planned to refuel in midair, thus tripling his range and obviating many landings in Alaskan mud, on ice hummocks or through fog, all deadly Arctic dangers. For 17 days, parka clad and living on seal meat and 18-month old eggs, Jimmie Mattern scoured the seacoast, the area flanking the 48th meridian and Alaska's mountainous interior. Because his refueling plane crashed just before reaching its destination he had to make the hazardous take-offs and landings he dreaded. Of the lost Russians not a trace was found...
...Canterbury? Roman Canterbury, near the seacoast of Kent, was a convenient stopping place for travelers to Britain. Here in 597 A.D. came that ardent Benedictine, St. Augustine, a missionary from Rome, to found a monastery and become the first Archbishop of Canterbury, even before the Norman Conquest. Ever since then Canterbury's archbishops have been England's primates, by simple priority. The archbishopric of York, far to England's north, was established two centuries later, not to challenge the authority of Canterbury but purely for administrative reasons...
...Manhattan dapper Mr. Howard dashed off cable questionnaires to Spanish Premier Largo Caballero who removed his Cabinet from Madrid to Valencia on the seacoast some months ago (TIME, Nov. 16), and to President Francisco Franco whose Spanish Government, officially recognized by Italy and Germany (TIME, Nov. 30), was established at Burgos on the sixth day of a civil war which this week was seven months...