Word: somes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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New Fields. If World War II takes one of its expected forms, with Britain, France and Poland lining up against Germany, Italy and Spain, nearly every historical theatre of battle in Europe might be ultimately involved. Because of the airplane, some quite unhistoric theatres might be involved as well. London...
Died. Samuel Davis Wilson, 57, eight days after he resigned as Mayor of Philadelphia; of cerebral thrombosis and hypertension (high blood pressure); in Philadelphia. Hardworking, harddriving, hard-drinking, red-faced Sam Wilson had been an automobile manufacturer, Sunday blue-law spy, contractor, justice of the peace, crime investigator. Politically he...
For the first thousand years of the Christian era the little island of Britain was overrun by hordes of men who rose up out of the sea. In the Fifth Century came the Angles, from somewhere on the bleak coast of the Baltic. Ships brought them, and when their kings...
5) De Lesseps' conviction for fraud after bubonic plague, smallpox, malaria and yellow jack had decimated some 70,000 laborers, and $400,000,000 of his stockholders' money had gone down the drain.
Not long ago the Lascelles boys, with a group of fellow Etonians, inspected some antiaircraft guns at Leeds. They used their observations for a 900-word lead story in the August issue of Harewood News, illustrating it with cute pictures of a gun and a bomber. A copy of the...