Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spark of humanity relieved the savage horror of the civil war last week. With Rightist corpses strewn over the El Pardo sector, just northwest of Madrid, General Franco passed word from trench to trench to ask the Leftists for a brief truce during which he might bury his dead. The Leftists gave the cease-fire order and Franco's stretcher-bearers gathered up crumpled bodies while guns in other sectors boomed a gruesome requiem...
...Harvard lineup will be: forwards, E. Whitney, A. Teichmeier, P. Knapp, A. Scott, H. Miller, A. Trench, T. Gephart and R. Williams; scrum half, S. Cockins; stand-off, H. Channing; inside three-quarters, G. Desmond and A. Simpson; wing three-quarters, J. Field and W. Watt, and fullback, W. Waters...
Doctors will have a better chance of seeing early cancer while its curable. It is a hard tast requiring patience-trench warfare with a vengeance against a ruthless killer. No quarter need be given or asked...
Fortnight ago negotiations to end the great 1937 automobile labor war broke down when the United Automobile Workers failed to evacuate its sit-down strikers from two General Motors plants in Flint (TIME, Jan. 25). The fighting in Michigan having bogged down into trench warfare, the active front shifted last week to Washington. Thither went Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, as he had planned to go anyhow to attend Franklin Roosevelt's inaugural. Thither went General Motors' President Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and Executive Vice President William S. Knudsen, thither Homer Martin, president of the striking union...
...widowed German mother of the bridegroom, discreetly sporty Princess Armgard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (cigarets, fast cars and cocktails in moderation). Lined up outside the ancient Great Church were 60 apple-cheeked college classmates of Her Royal Highness, a double line of cadets from The Netherlands Indies in grim trench helmets, a single line of Royal Navy Cadets in parade dress and "100,000 Dutch girls," thousands in national finery-not the everyday Dutch peasant bonnet but the gala holiday bonnet with embroidery and ornaments of actual gold, these representing solid Dutch peasant savings of many lifetimes. In The Netherlands nobody...