Word: stems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...devout pipe smoker, Professor Kirsten became dissatisfied with existing pipes. He wanted a pipe which would deliver cool smoke. He did not like filters so he invented the pipe which bears his name-a standard briar bowl mounted on a non-absorbing, easily cleaned duralumin stem. The stem is built large enough to act as a radiator, cooling the smoke...
PARIS FRANCE - Gertrude Stem -Scribner...
...take care of the ground operations, while the Royal Air Force of Great Britain was to handle those pertaining to the air. The sudden threat against the Channel ports and the island itself has compelled the British to hold the bulk of her air power in reserve to stem the tide of invasion. ..." When this was written, it was not known for sure that Germany would try to crush France before invading Great Britain...
...half-mast announcing that Henry George Alan Percy, Duke of Northumberland, Earl Percy, officer in the Grenadier Guards, had been killed in action. Head of the famous fighting Percy clan, which has battled in & out of England for over 800 years, the 27-year-old Duke died trying to stem the Nazi advance through Flanders. His brother and successor, Lord Hugh Algernon, is in active service with the Northumberland Hussars...
...into Generalissimo Weygand's new Somme-Aisne line from Abbeville to Montmedy (see map). British regiments, first arrivals of a new B. E. F., landed at Le Havre, were sent at once to this line. Attacks were launched at Abbeville and points east to recapture bridgeheads needed to stem the fresh assault which Führer Hitler & Staff were observed preparing. Indicating their lively interest in those bridgeheads, the Germans counterattacked repeatedly. All French infantry divisions, all tanks and artillery that could be spared from France's eastern border were massed and dug in below Amiens, Laon. Rethel...