Word: strip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other or someone else since the first Century A. D., were digging in for a last siege in the mountains near Gijón. Gijón, a little cod-fishing port became the capital of what was left of the Leftist side of the Basque Republic-a narrow strip running 125 miles along the Bay of Biscay. In this strip there was no food, no trade. Jose Antonio de Aguirre, the fiery little Basque President who had retreated with his government from Bilbao to Santander, gave up the struggle as a bad job and boarded a boat for Bayonne...
...that the blades feather (present a streamlined knife-edge to the wind), do not revolve. This is important because when a motor fails the airflow makes the dead propeller "windmill," which usually damages the disabled motor just as pushing an automobile forward with gears meshed but engine dead may strip the gears. Tried out on several military types by both army and navy, the new propeller last week won a fat contract from the Army-240 for an average price of $2,134.42 apiece...
Between the mainland of North Carolina and a string of shifting sandbanks that make one of the most treacherous regions of the Atlantic coast lies the verdant ten-mile strip of Roanoke Island. There Sir Walter Raleigh made his early and unsuccessful attempts to colonize the land which he, ever the courtier, tactfully called Virginia in honor of his virgin Queen Elizabeth. A previous settlement had already failed when in the summer of 1587 some 120 settlers under Governor John White landed at stout little Fort Raleigh, on the northern tip of the island. On Aug. 18 Governor White...
Supercilious Mandarins set aside for the foreign devils of Shanghai a separate area, eventually enlarged to a long strip of mud flats and pestilential swamps on the elbow bend of the Whangpoo River. Here separate concessions were established by Britain, the U. S., France. The French Concession has remained a separate entity, the other two combined in an International Settlement governed by a mixed commission to which other nations, including Japan, were later admitted...
...Zionist congress had such a serious problem to discuss: the British scheme for the partition of Palestine which would divide Jewry's sentimental homeland into 1) a northern Jewish state, including most of Palestine's arable land, 2) a southern Arab state, 3) a kidney-shaped British strip including the port of Jaffa and the sacred city of Jerusalem (TIME, July 19, et ante...