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...Germans had sown the slopes and the ridge with mines, booby traps, concealed anti-tank guns, mortars, machine guns and riflemen. Three times before, the third battalion had tried to take 532 and each time they had been driven back with losses...
...green mountains of the Cirenaican hump sudden torrential rains slowed his progress, but he pushed on. At Bengasi invasion-wise Bedouins in flapping sheets now snapped the British thumbs-up. He reorganized at El Aghéila, where German engineers had sown the dead with booby traps. He was off again, rolling under the Marble Arch on which was inscribed: "O beneficent sun, thou seest nothing greater than the City of Rome." At Wadi el Chebir wild camels and gazelles pranced across the dreary ditch-scarred land. At Wadi Zemzem the pilgrim drew himself...
...Siberia's harvested area increased by 2,100,000 acres over last year. In Kazakstan and central Asia land sown to winter grains increased by a half-million acres; in the Black Earth region, by 1,250,000 acres. The ratio of men to women in Russia's fields was about 3-to-100 (prewar average...
...step has been taken. The CRIMSON is a logical complement to the existing Harbus News, each having definite advantages in its sown field. A good number of the students are willing to be shown. It is now up to the CRIMSON to show them...
First seed of the grievance was sown following Britain's only general (nationwide) strike in 1926, when Baldwin's flustered Parliament passed the Trades Disputes Act. The Act outlawed all general strikes. Because its terms were so vague, it allowed the courts scope for declaring almost any strike illegal. The trade unions found it an elastic defense against their plans and programs...