Word: subterranean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came, the custodians of Europe's civilization knew it would mean a long silence for man's communion with literature and art. But they were ready for it, sure that somehow knowledge would survive in the dark chambers and subterranean crypts where they had secreted...
...Under New York City are about 45,000 miles of pipes, conduits, mains and ducts for water, gas, electricity, telephone and telegraph. By concentrating on these subterranean life lines "a small crew of saboteurs could probably make New York uninhabitable within seventy-two hours...
...will not let Germany have any of its helium (trapped in subterranean rocks in Utah and Texas) to buoy dirigibles which, commercial now, might become military. Last week Secretary of State Hull released 220,000 cubic feet to Germany's neighbor Poland, whose favor is currently courted by the dictatorships & democracies. Stated purpose: stratosphere balloon ascension...
...singing a sprightly song called Bel Ami, crowding Hitler's favorite show, Melody in the Night (although Miriam Verne, U. S. dancer who caught Hitler's eye, had gone to Munich to play The Merry Widow). The Rhine suddenly rose, flooded machine-gun nests, concrete pillboxes and subterranean construction on Germany's great western fortifications. In the midst of spring fervor, Nazi health authorities publicized an unbelievable figure: 75% of all young men between 20 and 29, they said, proved, when examined for military purposes, jobs, or party membership, to be suffering from syphilis-a declaration that...
Some military experts have long thought that, rather than a suicidal attack on the subterranean forts, tank traps and concrete pillboxes that guard the French and Belgian frontiers, German tacticians might attempt a lightning flank attack through the lightly armed Netherlands...