Word: straitness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...either the Orient Express or the Simplon Orient. The Orient goes through Germany and the Simplon through Italy. Zog first arranged to travel by Soviet steamer from Istanbul direct to Marseille, stopping only at Peiraeus, Greece, and Alexandria, Egypt. Normal route of such a journey, however, is through the Strait of Messina, on one side of which is the toe of the Italian boot, on the other Sicily. Both are uncomfortably close...
...sends glaciers down to the coast where huge chunks break off. Bergs "calved" on Greenland's west coast are first carried by a northward current tc Baffin Bay, then south in the Labrador current to the Newfoundland Banks. Some are wrecked on the coast, others drift into the Strait of Belle Isle; some float south to the Gulf Stream. This year, more bergs than usual were expected, because of an open winter in Baffin Bay and Labrador, and because the cold water of the Labrador current was reaching farther south than usual...
...Strait, author of "Union New" and former New York Union correspondent in Geneva, Switzerland spoke recently at the University as guest lecturer in the Government Department explaining his democratic union idea which has received widespread acclaim...
...need of conscientious guidance and aid in each course, they require individual treatment and consideration in the assignment of work. Instead they are here faced with an inordinately difficult course like History I; often with unfeeling automatons for instructor. Small wonder that the sirens from across the strait lure them...
Although greater in tonnage and ships than the Franco Navy, the Loyalist fleet early in the war lost control of the strategic Strait of Gibraltar and with it the mastery of the Spanish waters. Reasons: 1 ) when the war started sailors on Loyalist ships killed most of their experienced officers, leaving only inexperienced men in command; 2) the Franco fleet was rein forced by Italian submarines, destroyers and lesser craft. Both sides lost heavily during the war. There were about eight engagements during which the Franco fleet's most notable losses were the battle ship Espa...