Word: furthering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Sedan is a fateful name to the French. There in 1870 their Second Empire fell to the Prussians. For four years the soldiers of the German Emperor held it after 1914, not to be ousted until five days before Armistice by the French and the U. S. Rainbow Division. On...
Stern Home Secretary Sir John Anderson announced that seven years of penal servitude or a fine of $1,750 or both is now the penalty for any Briton caught "systematically" fomenting opposition to the war, but still permitted were mere "expressions of opinion." This week Sir John will ask the...
I call on my friends. . . ." Those words were a fatal blunder. By introducing a personal factor into so grave a debate Mr. Chamberlain gave his opponents a club which they wielded mercilessly from that moment on. Most effective use of it was made by hoary Lloyd George, who rapped out...
Alumni here for the first time were, according to whimsical observer Dr. Foss, "Particularly impressed with the omnipresent Harvard Club insignia. Even the water faucets in the men's room have H. C. on them." About one per-cent, the "hinterlanders", he further noted, were straw hats, oblivious of the...
Modern audiences should not be surprised when Tumak carries off Cinemactress Landis to civilize his own family. She is making fair headway when an erupting volcano, a river of molten lava, an earthquake and a siege by the biggest lizard of all unexpectedly further Progress by merging the Shell and...