Word: garrisoned
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...small village in the monotonous sugar-beet flatlands of Upper Silesia. Wodehouse has been there since the prison camp was created last September. No Castle Blandings, his prison is a big, brick, T-shaped, three-storied structure with many barred windows, high brick & wooden walls. A small military garrison runs and guards the camp. Central heating is said to be good, sanitation adequate. There are hospital facilities...
Thus spoke William LloydGarrison at a crisis in U. S. affairs (slavery) in 1831. Last week a Manhattan publicity man, dark, voluble little Edward L. Bernays, emulated Garrison as loudly as radio, printing presses and modern advertising permitted-which was plenty loud...
...defense plans for their island. Not in Great Sound, the harbor of Hamilton, but at the opposite end of the island group were the chief projected U. S. bases: for the Army a plane base on Long Bird Island, for the Navy a seaplane base, naval base and garrison area on St. David's Island, the use of several small islands near by for ammunition storage. From there it can spot a hostile fleet advancing against any North Atlantic port...
Heading the list were the Committee's honorary chairman, Professor Frans Boas, and Professor Wesley C. Mitchell, both former presidents of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences; Oswald Garrison Villard, former publisher and editor of "The Nation"; Dr. Carleton Washburne, president of the Progressive Education Association; Professor Ralph Barton Perry of Harvard University, author of the Pulitzer Prize biography of William James...
...Swiss-French border has already been closed, since the Swiss fear contamination from some mysterious epidemic which is eating into France at the present time. Nice has been closed to everybody because diphtheria has swept away more than half the Italian garrison there," he stated...