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At the start of the Second World War much of the Red Army, including its armoured forces, were in transition and recovering following the 1937 repression of the officer corps, as well as ignoring their lessons from Nomonhan which had been successfully accomplished by General Zhukov, and relying instead on lessons from their politically selected Spanish Civil War veteran high ranking officers, which resulted in their poor showing during the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939.
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At the end of the novel, Grand says he is much happier ; he has written to Jeanne and made a fresh start on his book.
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At its start it produced mechanical adding machines, and later moved into programmable ledgers and then computers.
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At the start of 2011, the Beano VIP pages were dropped from the comic, but the online features remain.
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At this level students could start to move on their own.
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At the time of Jesus, there was no single, coherent form or order within Second Temple Judaism, and significant political, social and religious differences existed among the Jews.
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At the time NRA president Sandra Froman said, " When these Bush Administration officials affirmed that the Second Amendment protects an individual right, the enemies of freedom were outraged because they fear the Second Amendment for what it really is – a shield against oppression.
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At the Second Vatican Council ( 1962 – 1965 ) the debate on papal primacy and authority re-emerged, and in the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, the Roman Catholic Church's teaching on the authority of the Pope, bishops and councils was further elaborated.
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