Word: tween
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Items: a hat collection which fluctuates be tween 140 and 400 with a complete annual turnover; five furs; 20 cloth coats, 150 pairs of shoes, 40 evening dresses, 75 blouses, 25 daytime dresses, 18 cocktail dresses, ten miscellaneous dresses, uncounted suits. "I do not like dresses," she says. "I live in suits...
...Pincers Close. From a line be tween Metz and Nancy, Major General Manton S. Eddy's XII Corps had jumped off in midweek, behind an artillery barrage so heavy that, according to one correspondent, the firing sheets looked like railroad timetables. Next day 1,300 heavy bombers came. The weather was too bad for close support, but they dropped 4,000 tons of bombs on Metz itself and on Saarbrücken...
...rnberg and the Bastion. Ahead (see map) was the natural corridor be tween the Austrian Alps and the Carpathians to industrial Bratislava on the east bank of the Danube. From Bratislava the Red Army might divide into two forces. One could fight up the Danubian gateway to Germany through Vienna to Linz, Munich and Nürnberg. The other could follow the Moravian gateway to northern Czechoslovakia-the Bohemian bastion.* Other Russian forces now before Cracow could move in to join the Bohemian drive through the Oder...
Russia and Switzerland have had no diplomatic relations since 1918, when the Swiss expelled a Russian mission for fostering Communist strikes. Business be tween the two countries was brisk. But good will was. not increased when four years ago the Swiss Government cracked down on both the Swiss Communist Party and home-grown Nazis...
...World and America puts history teaching on a basis quite as informal as that of the fabled Mark Hopkins and the student on the other end of the log. It consists in easy, familiar discussions be tween a fictional businessman, Sam, and his librarian friend, George. As the series opens they are waiting for something tall and cool at the 19th hole...