Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smarting under the defeat of Marathon, Persia's great Xerxes crossed the Hellespont on a bridge of boats in the summer of 480 B. c., and marched through Thessaly. Herodotus recorded that he had 1,800,000 men; modern historians say about 180,000. Leonidas, king of Sparta, met him with only 7,000 men at Thermopylae, a narrow strip of dry shore between the cliffs of Mount Oeta and the swampy border of the Maliac Gulf. Hearing that a big detachment of Persians had found a way around the pass, Leonidas sent 5,000 soldiers to head them...
...leaflet was designed to publicize MRA Week, which ended on Sunday with a big Citizens' Meeting in Madison Square Garden. On its face, the blurb looked like an endorsement of the doctrines of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, which in Europe have borne the label MRA since last summer (TIME, Sept...
Students who have passed two years of college work and who satisfy the Board as to their general fitness will be able to enter the regular flying course either this summer or next fall at Randolph Field near San Antonio Taxes...
...Participated in Oxford-Cambridge in summer...
Jaakko Mikkola's trackmen not only rolled up a record of 91 2-3 points against their traditional rivals at New Haven Saturday, but they assured themselves of 14 out of 20 places on the Yale-Harvard team which makes the coveteil trip to England this summer to compete with an Oxford-Cambridge combination...