Word: wide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Making his first public statement on the war since his letter to Alf Landon favoring repeal of the arms embargo last October, President Conant will speak tonight over a nation-wide hook-up of the Columbia broadcasting system on "Immediate Aid to the Allies...
Feeling that Harvard should do its bit to alleviate the horrors of the European war, a group of students has volunteered to assist the American Red Cross in its nation-wide campaign for war relief. Today it will appeal to the generosity of Harvard men, hoping to raise a minimum of $1,200 as a modest contribution to the ten million dollar fund which the Red Cross needs to lend effective help. A supply ship has already been sent to France; but many more must cross the ocean to provide for only the barest needs of an estimated five million...
...saved his country by plugging the dike with his fist was missing last week. His duty this time would have been to blow up the Moerdijk Bridge, longest on the Continent, connecting Rotterdam and the heart of The Netherlands with south Holland across the 1∧ mile wide Hollandsch Diep (joint estuary of the Maas and Waal Rivers). A gallon of well placed nitroglycerin would at least have delayed the German armored column which, having raced 85 miles westward in less than 86 hours (TIME, May 20), clanked across to reinforce Nazi parachute and air ferried troops beleaguered...
Last week as Allied troops moved in to The Netherlands West Indies to guard the Aruba and Curasao oil refineries, South America became very quisling-conscious. Uruguay set up a "Dies" committee to ferret out wide-flung Nazi activities. Argentine police seized secret Nazi radio stations and broke up street demonstrations while Government officials warned Argentines that Hitler rule would destroy the civilization of centuries. Newspapers in Bolivia and Chile clamored for suppression of blatant Nazi activities. Colombia became jittery over the possibility of sabotage to her oil lines. Latin Americans suddenly realized what Germans have long known, namely that...
...school or college," wrote onetime Tugger Gordon, "compared favorably with a well-trained crew in technique, precision and rhythm. . . . There were five men to a team. . . . The rope was about seventy-five feet long. . . . Exactly in the middle of the platform there was a red line one inch wide over which was the lever which held the rope preparatory to the 'drop' or start...