Word: triede
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For three months, an insurgent strike led by Seaman Joseph Curran tried ineffectually to tie up Atlantic and Gulf ports. Last week the strikers, weary of futile picketing and fighting, voted on peace. Only in four of 14 ports was a majority for carrying on. Chief gain that Seaman Curran...
He was born in the Moldavian Hills in 1881. He used to listen to the songs of gypsies and repeat them on a crude, three-stringed fiddle. At 7, his father tried to enter him in Vienna Conservatory. Master Hellmesberger squinted over his spectacles, growled that the Conservatory was "not...
No history of modern architecture is complete without many pages on the work of the Dessau Bauhaus, which in the years of its existence did as much for city planning, furniture design and painting as it did for architecture. Director Gropius has always insisted that he is no Red. After...
This thought occurred to Acting Superintendent A. B. Everts of the Cleveland National Forest in Southern California. But 50 gallons of water weigh 416 Ib. Hauling that much weight, plus a pump and its power unit, over a mountain trail is slow work. Gasoline pumps are convenient but heavy. Forester...
At Madagascar, Rozhestvensky held his first fleet for two and a half months while he waited for reinforcements, tried to whip his command into shape. To his purple-faced disgust he found that after a four-months' cruise it took his flagship an hour to up anchor, that "in...