Word: surrounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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McKay proved that, as French prestige dimmed, the nations which she had once secured as allies for her plan to surround the Reich became more unpredictable. Only Czechoslovakia, now faced with the omnipresent menace of German encroachment, remained dependent and faithful...
...best U. S. packs of English fox hounds, raising pheasants, and running the Gold Cup Steeplechase. He left it to his son, Richard King Mellon, when he died in 1933. Rolling Rock Country Club hunts over 75,000 acres, mostly owned by 240 farmers whose acres surround the Mellon 12,000. To pay them for the privilege of hunting their land, Rolling Rock has guaranteed the farmers extra work at $3 a day. Last week, 49 of the farmers doing extra work at Rolling Rock left their plows in their first spring furrows, went on strike. Into the Pittsburgh office...
...many undergraduates who frequent the University Theatre deep mystery may surround the activities of a certain man who sits in the front row of the balcony, clutching a telephone...
...meets Riordan and they fall in love before she knows who he is. When she finds out, loyalty to her father prompts her to set a trap that almost catches him. Loyalty to Riordan then prompts her to go to him and explain what she has done. English soldiers surround his house. When he escapes, Riordan has to promise his supporters not to see her again. He keeps the promise until the night in London when he is trying to decide whether to vote for or against a compromise treaty that he knows his party will regard as treachery. After...
Except for the great space-curvatures which Relativists say surround stars and suns, no conceivable agency or material could actually cause light to travel in a curve. The reason that du Font's plastic appears to do so is that the crystalline structure of the material refracts the light in a series of very short straight lines joined at slight angles, like bar links in a watch chain, so that the light stays inside the conductor until it reaches...