Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farthest north the fate of Petsamo was still in doubt while, to the west, one Russian column pushed southward for an enveloping attack...
These thrusts were as dangerous as they were daring. Although Finland might be cut in half laterally and Petsamo crippled as a supply base, the Finns in the south could still get supplies from Sweden by way of the Gulf of Bothnia. Meanwhile the Russian columns were in peril of being cut off from their own bases. The Blitzkrieg was becoming a war of supply lines...
...Twilight was fast vanishing but it was still light enough to see hills, peaks, and valleys around...
...they were hired to do a comic Bowery skit at a Manhattan hockey game) and Eddie's younger brother, Roy. In 1937, the Follies were as crude as a road company of East Lynne. Next year the little St. Paul troupe was more professional. Last year they were still better. This year their show was as polished as any Follies the late Florenz Ziegfeld ever produced...
...Arabian cartwheels without touching hands to ice; little Harris Legg, who takes a breath-taking leap over a lineup of eleven barrels and as a giant snowman performs the rare stunt of skating on 18-inch stilts; onetime Minnesota Footballer Heinie Brock and his buffoonery; Eddie Shipstad & Oscar Johnson, still cutting up in their own show...