Word: area
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...strike a second fish without being struck in return, and the second has the same right of 'passing the blow' to a third individual. These . . . 'pecking orders' owe their existence not to strength but to psychic factors, such as the period of residence in an area. . . . Many fish devote most of their energies to trying to change their social status...
...they were August 1. If the crisis passes without the war the pound is not likely soon to return to $4.86 or even $4.68. So unless the dollar is competitively devalued U. S. manufacturers will face new British underselling. If Argentina, Australia and other crop exporters (in the sterling area) also mark down their currencies, as is likely, their cotton, grains and meats will grow cheaper, intensifying the U. S. crop crisis (which only a war could ease...
...knew antiaircraft fire when he saw it. He checked his position: near Strasbourg, France. Pouring on the coal to 10,000 feet, swerving from his course, he radioed Strasbourg airfield to find out if war had begun. "Very sorry," came the answer. "You were near the Maginot Line prohibited area and we did not recognize you. Was our shooting good?" Obviously...
...Canton area, so near Hong Kong as to be a perfect base for attack, the Japanese are estimated to have 40,000 troops-as compared to an estimated 10,000 which Britain has based at Hong Kong. The odds are so long against them that the British command has already decided to abandon the Crown Colony in the event of a showdown. British commercial interests-such as the $50,000,000 Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp.-and the private property of the 16,000-odd British residents of Hong Kong are not deemed to be worth fighting losing battles...
Poland has attempted to concentrate her industry in the so-called Polish triangle on the upper Vistula. After the first fight in the railroad network area, after the German mechanized army had had a chance to bog down in the muddy roads back of the old frontier, the Polish army would still have its own industrial area behind it-provided the Germans had not got into the triangle by the backdoor. On the south (Slovakia) the triangle is guarded by the Carpathians which stand next to the Alps as a first-class natural fortification. On the west it faces greater...