Word: thrustings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Definitely Ethiopia cannot be conquered without Italian thrusts up from the south through Harar and in from the east, complementing the thrust down from the north which last week won Aduwa (see p. 19). With 150,000 Ethiopian troops under his command, Old Eagle Beak must try to defend Ethiopia's only railway. To Correspondent Stallings, after boasting through an old soldier's repertoire of battles, Wehib Pasha finally worked up to 1935 and boomed: "The English might conquer Ethiopia or even the French, never the Italians! "It is an axiom that even water will follow the English...
...Manhattan last week towering Otto Klemperer marched before the Philharmonic Symphony, thrust his baton into the air and drew forth the overture to a new music season. Next day in Philadelphia Leopold Stokowski was back on his spotlit chromium podium. Rehearsals were under way in Boston under Sergei Koussevitzky, in Cleveland under Artur Rodzinski. Soon orchestras all over the U. S. will be in full stride...
...doing so has followed the only course open to an intelligent and principled university head. As for the Daughters of the American Revolution, who through the person of their president general have assailed Mather's refusal, they will surely find that nationalism of the sort they would thrust upon this country is acceptable only to a dictatorship such as America will be fortunate never to have...
...Quentin Prison last week, was ferried under guard across the bay to San Francisco, where he and Warren K. Billings were convicted of bombing the local Preparedness Day parade in 1916, with a loss of ten lives. So often has the militant U. S. Labor movement thrust his case into court in a consistently unsuccessful effort to exonerate it and him, free him from a life sentence, that today Tom Mooney has come to think of himself as an important public personage in his own right. Now the Mooney lawyers had for the first time been able to put their...
...present continents. Evidence: the coastlines of Western Europe and Africa and those of Eastern, North and South America almost fit like jigsaw puzzle pieces; similar fossils on the two sides seem to be remains of life that once inhabited one undivided land. During this drift mountains may have been thrust up along lines of weakness in the crust...