Word: greek
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...behind their frontiers watched their new German friends approaching, mobilized, advanced with full arms to meet them (see p. 28). At Copenhagen the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of Sweden, Norway and Denmark hastily met. The wool-importing firm in Amsterdam, driven to the wall (see p. 19); the Greek Permanent Under Secretary of State flying to Rome; the correspondent in Turkey writing feverishly of "a situation baffling to the keenest-minded diplomats"; the Canadians, at first indifferent to the war, electrified at its new menace (see p. 21); Japanese, signing an armistice with Russia, launching a new. offensive...
...gaunt, shy Swede, the son of a frontier family, George Norlin put himself through college and became a great Greek scholar. He also became one of the strong men of U. S. education. In 40 years at Colorado, 20 as its president, he made it the best university between the Middle West and the Pacific Coast. In the process he faced down the Ku Klux Klan and many another foe of academic freedom. Few years ago he frightened his friends by defying Adolf Hitler in his own backyard. As a visiting lecturer in Berlin, he persisted in championing democracy despite...
...heights of Salamis overlooking the Bay of Eleusis, the mighty Persian, Xerxes, in 480 B. C. watched his fleet sink under attack of 300 Greek battleships...
...necessary. Switzerland manned her passes. Nerves were on edge and "accidents" happened. Four bombs plumped into the Danish seaport of Esbjerg, 40 miles from the German border, injuring twelve and killing one (a woman). Danish fishing boats blundered into German mine fields and sank. Off the Swedish coast a Greek steamer struck a German mine, sank...
...from Libya they threaten Egypt. Off the coast of Asia Minor they have a naval base at Leros in that happy hunting ground of submarines-the Aegean. The master stroke of recent Italian history was the seizure of Albania. For between Albania's capital of Tirana and the Greek port of Salonika there is a trough, along which Italian troops could move to intercept a Franco-British thrust into the Balkans...