Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Bradford Washburn, '33, will continue on December 18 with a lecture on "Exploring the Yukon's Glacial Stronghold". Distinguished by exceptional motion picture shots and a brilliant address. Washburn's lectures are always popular...
...only real victory of his enemies was the result of an Austrian order incorrectly dated. The methodical Austrian commander, thus instructed to arrive at Montelegino the day after the battle, and the day after he was needed, followed his bungled orders to the letter. Napoleon had already taken the stronghold. The main Austrian army had retreated. At this point the small Austrian detachment, running 24 hours behind schedule, marched in quietly, as astonished as the French, who fled in disorder. That was a maneuver so unexpected that even Napoleon could not have conceived it. It suggested that in warfare...
...British Somaliland. Fierce nests of Ethiopian sharpshooters and unseasonable rains that bogged tanks and trucks hub-deep had held up the southern advance for days, but now Italian troops, moving again in three columns, had crossed over half the Ogaden Desert, were drawing closer & closer to Harar, chief stronghold of Ras Nassibu, commander of the Ethiopian armies of the south in Ogaden. Scouting planes zooming high over Harar found the inhabitants already streaming off to the hills, only a few squads of soldiers in the streets. Fifty miles south of Harar, southern Ethiopians shot down their first Italian battle plane...
Throughout the early years of the igth Century, U. S. social thinking was concentrated on the abolition of Negro slavery and the formation of experimental Utopian communities of the character of Brook Farm. Strangest and strongest of these colonies was the Oneida Community at Oneida, N. Y., stronghold of "communism of love" and of experiments in birth control, prosperous manufacturer of steel traps and silverware, centre of scandal for more than 30 years. Founded in 1847 with a handful of converts and a few hun-dred dollars capital, the Community in 1880 owned property valued at more than...
...last-minute injuries and no changes in the starting lineup were reported as the Varsity men turned their equipment over to the managers for shipment to the Army stronghold...