Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently, the government has been concerned over the frequency of forest fires in certain regions of the country. Believing that many of these fires were started by dissatisfied country people, a sub-committee for the prevention of forest fires was established...
Graves was the individual star of the win on Friday with a sub-par 71, while Cordingley, in defeat, was the low Harvard man Saturday. A driving rain all Saturday morning had turned the course into a veritable swamp...
...Belgium's Léon Degrelle has been working sub rosa since April 1939, when his Rexists were roundly trounced in the Parliamentary elections. Last week, as Belgium placed Belgian ex-service men on guard over utilities and communications centres, no one seemed to know anything about Rexist Degrelle. But it was a safe guess that the Government had him where he would find it mighty inconvenient to quisle...
...week before the game local society and sporting pages had been ballyhooing the event. The Producers team would consist of Walter Wanger, a hard-working non-scorer; Frank Borzage of long low-goal experience; Mike Curtiz, who took "ill" at the last moment, had Oil Man Steen Fletcher sub for him; and eight-goaler Aidan Roark, Zanuck's assistant at polo and pictures. The Actors would be spirited novice Paul Kelly, Charles Farrell, Tim Holt (son of he-man Jack) and comic Guinn ("Big Boy") Williams. Over their hearts the Actors would wear the initials G. R.-for Ginger...
Near Lillesand, on Norway's southeast tip, a British sub sent two torpedoes crashing into the hull of the 5,261-ton German freighter Rio de Janeiro. The world knew she had slammed a troop transport when Norwegian fishermen reported picking up live and dead German soldiers in field uniform. The Rio de Janeiro had had aboard 500 soldiers, 80 horses. Where were they bound? Why? The overture began. Through the Skagerrak steamed a fleet of 125 German armed ships including one pocket battleship, either Admiral Scheer or Lutzow...