Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advance guard of 21,000 Red Army troops, supported by 400 tanks, marched in to protect little Estonia from the threats of "imperialist adventurers," some 18,000 German-speaking Estonians, descendants of the Teutonic Knights and Hanseatic merchants who had settled in the Eastern Baltic six and seven centuries ago, made haste to get out. Further south, in Latvia, 60,000 Balts-as the Germans are known in the Baltic-simultaneously began a mass migration back to the "spiritual homeland" they have not known for centuries, while in Lithuania, where Russian troops are expected before long, a mass exodus...
...Corriere della Sera, leading newsorgan of Italy's Pittsburgh (Milan): "This is the West which retreats in the face of the union of the East-a Bunion which continues slowly reaching all objectives without shots or ultimatums. . . . After seven centuries of battle against Slav influence, the German minorities which acted as sentinels of northeast Europe now retreat, giving up their parts to Russians. . . . The mass exodus of Germans from the Baltic is viewed with feelings of dismay...
...late great Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan are correct and World War II is one more struggle between sea power and land power, as the War went into its seventh week the fighting continued almost entirely in the sphere where the Allies are proportionately strongest-on water. Within seven days three submarines, three freighters, three passenger ships and a battleship went to the bottom...
Although Iron-man Jack Haley, the Crusaders' ace half miler and miler, led the Varsity pack through the tape in 29:02. Jaakko Mikkola's operatives captured seven out of the first ten places...
According to the Committee figures seven of the ten students who had escaped English A and were reported for faulty English, had transferred from some other institution...