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Word: throughs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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French resistance along the northwestern frontier was weak, though brave, because the French had not anticipated so wide a movement against them. While Kluck and Bülow drove through British resistance at Mons, the main French offensive, in the Ardennes, failed. The Third and Fourth German Armies crushed through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Side Door | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

This time the side door to France, while not so strong as her eastern portals, is doubly locked and bolted. Within France along the Belgian border runs an extension of the Maginot Line, not continuous but strategically clumped. Across the border is a Belgian Army, fully mobilized last week to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Side Door | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

The fact that he feels this way about the Nazis is one big reason why Army Commander-in-Chief Generaloberst Walther von Brauchitsch has the job of Germany's No. 1 Fighting Man. The German officer corps' leading exponent of not getting along with the Nazis, aristocratic, bemonocled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLISH THEATRE: Divide and Rule | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

"Still Waiting..." Although the German campaign in Poland was "ended" according to General Brauchitsch who left last week for the Western Front, the agony of Warsaw only increased. As the Vistula flows through Poland's former Capital, Warsaw was sliced by the Military Division theoretically into German and Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLISH THEATRE: Divide and Rule | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Jellicoe strung out to prevent Scheer's return, rather than pursue him and risk a night battle. Scheer took that risk and, due to balled-up British orders and wireless, got through the British destroyers with loss of only one battleship. Each side claimed victory. The loss score was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Jutland No. II | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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