Word: across
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...History has many curious and circuitous passages-many winding stairways which return upon themselves-but none more curious than the turn of time which brings the Great Charter of the English to stand across this gallery from the two great charters of American freedom...
Retired from active service, he still headed the national defense council which built a defense-in-depth system across the Karelian Isthmus. Fashionable, popular way for Finns to spend their vacation the past two years was to go dig on the Mannerheim Line. This stretches 55 miles across the lowlands and, besides pillboxes and blockhouses, it contains a maze of tank traps and barriers. The fields and fir forests here are studded with granite boulders, which the Finns arranged in serried ranks, buried deeply with their jagged points sticking six feet...
...People's Government was formed at Terijoki, a little seaside village in Finland just across the Russian border which the Red Army had just captured. The chairman and Foreign Minister of the new "Government" was an old revolutionary named Otto Kuusinen, who had lived in Moscow for years. Tovarish Kuusinen, who immediately after being raised to his new station took on the foreign title of Gospodin (Mr.), was, in fact, a member of the executive committee of the Communist International. He left Finland 20 years ago during the White Guard Terror. How the new "Government" could radio from Terijoki...
...hegemony of the epoch. The royal minuet held sway while France was supreme; the waltz became the undisputed monarch of the ballroom when Napoleon was overthrown with the help of the Germans. One hundred years later the German-Austrian waltz died out when the victorious troops of America streamed across the ocean to the battlefields of Europe...
...handsome a subsidy as any city ever granted to a transport business. For rentals from the new airport New York City will get only $315,000 a year, has no expectation of getting any money return for the king's ransom it paid to bring the airlines across the Hudson from Jersey...