Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little game with 20,000 men in the Alps. The problem, set by General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, who not only attended the maneuvers but handshook every man in two regiments: "The capture of a mountain pass and the exploitation of its capture by a movement into the dominated valley...
...judges concluded that if one of the passes of the Savoy Alps should ever be taken by an enemy, then they could not be checked in the valley and the defending French Army would have to stop them in positions farther back...
...Back in 1913, a young undertaker named John A. Maxwell played golf with two companions on the Raritan Valley Country Club course, Somerville, N. J. As they approached the tenth green, a thunderstorm broke. A forked tongue of lightning licked the fairway, kicked all three players on to their backs, ripped one golf bag down the middle. None of the players was injured. Last week, on the same fairway of the same golf course, in the corresponding week of the corresponding month, at the same time of day (about 3:15 p.m.) Golfer Maxwell was struck down and killed...
...Scott also placed the first toilet paper advertising-a chaste piece in the Atlantic Monthly. For the next decade the sales theory of toilet paper was as many brands as possible: Scott had 2,800 with such choice names as Foldum, Daisy, Twilldu, Krect, Lillies of the Valley, Astanby, Kowntit (this last referred to a standard toilet paper racket-short-sheeting the rolls...
...interesting sample of the latter is . . . and Tell of Time, a 712-page novel based on the post-Civil War background of Author Krey's Texas forbears (the family still owns a plantation in the cotton-growing Brazos Valley of southeastern Texas). Here the tedium of the narrative contrasts particularly with the dramatic events in which the family was involved. The Civil War itself was only slightly more violent than Reconstruction Texas, with its swarms of ruined Confederate soldiers turned loose, its bitter landowners turned Ku Kluxers to fight a black army of occupation...