Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bradford Washburn; March 17, "Searching for the First Agriculturists," Derwood W. Lockard, of the Peabody Museum; March 24, "Iceberg Ahead," William M. Rand, Jr.; April 14, "Australian Aborigines and Half-Castes," Joseph B. Birdsell; April 21, "Search for Sleeping Island," P. G. Downes; May 5, "Dominica, The Caribs' Last Stronghold," Walter H, Hodge; and May 19, "Alaska Indian Art," Frederick R Pleasants...
...prong of Tunisia where the Mediterranean is squeezed into a 90-mile-wide channel, through which all east-&-westbound convoys must pass. Dead in the middle lies the island of Pantelleria, loaded with Italian shore batteries. One hundred and twenty miles to the east is the British stronghold of Malta. The waters of the strait make an ideal hunting ground for Axis submarines, torpedo boats and bombers...
...undergraduate sleuths were in full cry. Lowell House's student chairman, blond, smart Senior Joseph P. Lyford, issued a list of five suspects. The Harvard Crimson put its heelers to work hunting clues. Few days later the 5,500 volumes in Winthrop House's library, a basement stronghold, were found reversed...
...that during the last century the churches had . . . denounced cheating with a quarter of the vehemence with which they denounced legalized adultery [i.e., divorce and remarriage]. But one was easy and the other was not. To upset legalized cheating, the church must tackle the Government in its very stronghold; while to cope with intellectual corruption she will have to affront all those who exploit it-the politician, the press, and the more influential part of her own congregations. Therefore, she will acquiesce in a definition of morality so one-sided that it has deformed the very meaning of the word...
...southern war theatre last week-"Long Lizzie" and "Bardia Bill," so named by the ever jocular British. Both were big naval rifles, emplaced ashore and manned by seamen from the opposing fleets. Lizzie was Italian, Bill a Britisher.* Savagely they hurled huge shells in & out of the besieged Italian stronghold of Bardia, Lizzie occasionally lobbing a few 15 miles along the coast toward Salum, which until Bardia should fall was the British column's sole supply port...