Word: spearhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much the worst of it in daily dogfights, 21 Franco bombers escorted by 66 pursuit ships hurled 50 tons of bombs down upon a four-mile-square, area of the ten-mile-square advance Leftist positions, huge 200-lb. bombs gouging enormous craters, destroying the point of the Leftist spearhead. This week, grimly determined to follow up their advantage the Rightists reportedly massed 42,000 men on the Madrid front, another 80,000 in reserve. Newshawks were already beginning to talk in anticipation about the "Battle for Madrid...
...Spain's Foreign Legion. Last week Fortunato Manure was one of some 200 Italians, ranging in rank from privates up to a Lieutenant-Colonel, who were captured by Madrid's defenders in five days of furious strife which badly broke the point of the so-called "Italian Spearhead" thrusting at Madrid from the northeast on the Guadalajara front...
...Debrett (Britain's social register), The People, Passing Show, and John Bull. Editor-in-chief of every organ put out by Odhams is John Dunbar, a Scot with a rich brogue. Elias, who has never written a newspaper story in his life, is the firm's financial spearhead. His wealth is impossible to gauge for he never publishes a financial statement. Odhams ranks so high, however, that when Elias put out a big bond issue last year is was oversubscribed in five minutes...
...result the late practice of awarding excess subsidies to students has developed at many divinity schools. he said. "We have been the spearhead of a movement which has looked to improving the standard of the ministry by reducing large and indiscriminate theological scholarships, and by throwing the costs of his study more and more upon the student himself," the report states...
While the week's biggest crowd helped defray mortgage interest of $200,000 on its huge stadium, Pitt, beaten fortnight ago by little Duquesne, recovered to give Notre Dame its worst defeat since 1925- 26-to-0. Spearhead of the Pitt attack, and author of one Pitt touchdown was the youngest player on the field, Marshall ("Biggie") Goldberg, stocky sophomore who, next morning, celebrated his 18th birthday by reading that the country's ablest football writers had picked him as a prospect for the 1936 All-America...