Word: arrayed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...vast array of hereditary titles settled upon him, a bachelor, a democrat, and the last of his immediate line. His work for closer U. S.-British trade relations ended formally when he resigned from the Government over the Ottawa agreement. In the '30s, during the period of appeasement, he saw his last hope-that Adolf Hitler might still be brought into the fabric of European law & order by adjustments of the Versailles Treaty-end in the invasion of Czecho-Slovakia. And as he arrived in the U. S. as Ambassador, he saw the outbreak of the war which...
...show next day. He had indeed demonstrated that modern cavalry could flow off roads, through brush and sand, over ridges and through gullies which would slow or balk any mechanized force. And horsed units, within the limits of a rough battlefield, could speedily transport an impressive array of fire power: a modern U. S. Cavalry division's 6,476 horses and 10,100 officers and men should carry, among other things, 9,764 pistols, 942 light & heavy machine guns, 117 artillery pieces, 4,863 Garand rifles...
...Grolier Club's new show, he thinks, bears him out too. He sweeps an arm about the array of sporting books, which date neatly from 1340 to 1940, points out that many a lustrous treatise on hawking, angling, hunting was written in the shadow of the Church. The first printed English sporting book, the Book of St. Albans, was written presumably by an abbess. "The greatest hunting manuscript in existence." the brilliantly illuminated 15th-Century Le Lime de la Chasse of Gaston Phebus, observes: "There is no man's life less displeasurable to God than the life...
...imposing array of government, history, law, and economic professors will lead and centralize the discussion, in which questions are expected from the floor. In addition to Professor Holcombe, Payson S. Wild, Jr., associate professor of Government, and Warren A. Seavey, professor of Law, are scheduled to speak...
Relentlessly last week and this the planes came - Stukas, Jaguars, "flying pencils," "Jitterschmitts" - the whole array, not once a day but almost incessantly. They came from different angles, feinting at other targets, then sheering in on the city; at different heights and different speeds; in waves, but on staggered schedules to confuse the defense...