Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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 Tuesday afternoon the soldiers of the Third Reich entered Sedan. There was now very little hope of saving Belgium. It was a question of saving France. A further German breakthrough would imperil the whole of France's western defenses to the sea. The French rear areas were taking an awesome beating from the bombs and strafing...
Adolf Hitler deemed Narvik important enough, as the main outlet for Swedish iron ore, to spend one-third of his destroyers trying to secure it. From conquered southern Norway his ground troops now pushed northward towards the battered iron port. Nazi parachute troops appeared at Mo, more than halfway up the coast highway from Namsos to Bodo, beyond which 47 miles of road end in trackless mountains stretching another 87 crow-line miles to Narvik. They were hurried ahead to cut off a Norse contingent and some 300 remnant British who, retreating north from Namsos, delayed the Nazi column...
...York matchmakers, Lew Jenkins described himself as an "ornery cuss," was finally given a chance on a Tuesday-night card in Long Island City's Queensboro Arena. He won his first fight, his second, his third. By the time he had won six in a row, New York managers sat up and took notice. Two months ago, when he knocked out Tippy Larkin in one round at Madison Square Garden for his tenth successive victory, knowing New York fight fans became aware of the latest pugilistic freak: a hollow-cheeked, sunken-eyed 132-pounder, with the legs...
...floor. Without any semblance of an ultimatum. Invader Jenkins began his Blitzkrieg with a sneak-punch right to the chin. In the second round, just to prove that he had a two-armed attack, the challenger bombed the champion again with a left to the jaw. In the third, it was all over. Finishing him off like a miniature Joe Louis, Jenkins blasted the crown off Ambers' whirling head. It was the first time in his eight-year career that Ambers had been knocked...
...founded the town of Holland. When hard times later hit Pastor van Raalte's flock, it moved inland to neighboring Grand Rapids, where its members' woodcarving talents found jobs in the rising furniture industry. Today, of Grand Rapids' 168,000 inhabitants, from a quarter to a third are of Dutch descent...