Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> The Territorial Army, fully mechanized, started on Britain's greatest peacetime maneuvers. Trucks, radio cars, ambulance convoys, cyclists rumbled through ordinarily quiet rural roads as 135.000 men began a fortnight's training period which will end with a "battle" with an "invading" army from Wales.
Behind electrically-charged door knockers and boarded-up back doors, manning pails of slops at upstairs windows, 70,000 embattled striking families are currently prepared to fight eviction. In the case of tenancies covered by the Rent Acts, passed during the War to prevent profiteering, the strikers sometimes have a...
But if the old Spain died in the war, last week's celebrations made it plain that old Spaniards were still trying to run the show. Through 32 months of war and four months of peace, the same pre-war figures kept control of the State and the Army...
In spite of laymen's hopes, the question of life on Mars will probably not be solved when Caltech's 200-inch telescope gets into action (perhaps next year). The giant instrument will show Mars larger but not much clearer, on account of atmospheric distortion. The light by...
The child's soul, says Dottoressa Montessori, develops through a series of "sensitive periods"-times when it has a preternatural bent to learn such things as walking, talking. These periods must be recognized by parents; the child must be allowed to take utmost advantage of them. Babies of 1...