In 1939 – 40, 45 percent of the army was 40 years old, and 50 percent of all the soldiers had just a few weeks training.

In a few years ( 1939 ) Turing would propose, like Church and Kleene before him, that his formal definition of mechanical computing agent was the correct one.

Kaye and his wife, Sylvia, both grew up in Brooklyn, living only a few blocks apart, but they did not meet until they were both working on an off-Broadway show in 1939.

For example, the Spitfire, one of the few fighters in continuous production throughout the war, was in 1939 powered by a Merlin II, while variants produced in 1945 were equipped with the Griffon 61.

Along the same lines, Ribbentrop told the Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano on 5 May 1939 " It is certain that within a few months not one Frenchman nor a single Englishman will go to war for Poland ".

* Two Max Fleischer features, Gulliver's Travels ( 1939 ) and Hoppity Goes to Town ( 1941 ) were previously sold to NTA along with a few independent productions released by Paramount like One Third of a Nation ( 1939 ), as well as some features acquired by the studio after their theatrical release, including The Bells of St. Mary's ( 1945 ) and Good Sam ( 1947 ) ( both originally distributed by RKO Radio Pictures ).

During the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in 1939, the MP38 production was still just starting and only a few thousand were in service, but it proved very effective especially in close quarters urban combat.

A few months after World War II broke out in September 1939, Stravinsky moved to the United States.

By 1939, the idiom was " that a half-dozen monkeys provided with typewriters would, in a few eternities, produce all the books in the British Museum.

Examples of performers who went on to universal recognition are Jeremy Brett, Judi Dench, Rosemary Harris, Ian McKellen, Christopher Plummer, Harold Pinter, Imelda Staunton, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Stewart, Geraldine McEwan, Ronnie Barker, Dirk Bogarde, who wrote about his start at tiny Amersham rep in 1939, and Michael Caine, who recounts his time spent at Horsham rep in the early fifties, to present just a few.

In 1939, Stalin approved the publication of one volume of poetry, From Six Books, however the collection was withdrawn and pulped after only a few months.

He married Bernice Ray in 1939, with whom he had two daughters ; they divorced a few years later.

One of the book's early champions was Thornton Wilder, who wrote to Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas in August 1939, a few months after the book's publication: " One of my absorptions [...] has been James Joyce's new novel, digging out its buried keys and resolving that unbroken chain of erudite puzzles and finally coming on lots of wit, and lots of beautiful things has been my midnight recuperation.

In April 1939, Britten and Pears left for America together as pacifists, a few months before the outbreak of war between the British Empire and Germany.

) Orwell wrote Coming Up for Air while he was in North Africa and left the manuscript at his agent's office within a few hours of arriving back in England on 30 March 1939.

Nevertheless, it was burned during the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 1939 ) and practically all of its contents were destroyed with the exception of a few minor relics and choir seats.

Skagway was one of the few towns in Alaska ( along with Petersburg and Seward ) to endorse the 1939 Slattery Report on Alaskan development through immigration, especially of Jews from Germany and Austria.

Only a few flakes were recorded in 1939.

The Dutch novelist Simon Vestdijk lived in Doorn for a great part of his life ( between 1939 and 1971, a few short intervals excepted ).

During the 1930s, Finzi composed only a few works, but it was in these works, notably the cantata Dies natalis ( 1939 ) to texts by Traherne, that his fully mature style developed.

Speedway first took place at Wembley in 1929 and operated until the outbreak of World War II in 1939, a few days before the 1939 World Championship Final was due to be held but was cancelled as a result.

( Nevertheless, there were a few recording sessions in Studio 8-H as late as June 1950, probably because of improvements to the acoustics in 1939, including installation of an acoustical shell.

The patriotically named first Ford Anglia, launched soon after Britain declared war on Germany in early September 1939, and given the internal Ford model code of E04A, was a facelifted version of the Ford 7Y, a simple vehicle aimed at the cheap end of the market, with few features.

The Straw Hat Revue opened on 29 September 1939, and closed after ten weeks, but it was long enough for critics to take notice of Kaye's work in it.

On 25 July 1939, just five weeks before the outbreak of World War II, the Polish Cipher Bureau handed reconstructed Enigma machines and their techniques for decrypting ciphers to their French and British allies.

Seven weeks later, November 17, 1939, on the orders of General Władysław Sikorski, this organization was succeeded by Związek Walki Zbrojnej ( Union for Armed Struggle ), which over two years later, on February 14, 1942, became the AK.

At the 1939 Bayreuth Festival Hitler warned Unity and Diana Mitford that war with England was inevitable within weeks and they should return home.

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Soviet calendar, 1933 Days grouped into seven-day weeks Rest day of six-day work week in blue Five national holidays in red Soviet calendar, 1939 Days grouped into six-day work weeks Each day 31 is outside six-day week Last six-day week of February is short Six national holidays in red

From the summer of 1931 until, each Gregorian month was usually divided into five six-day weeks, more and less ( as shown by the 1933 and 1939 calendars displayed here ).

Less than two weeks before the 1942 midterm congressional election, columnist Drew Pearson's nationally-syndicated column ( Washington Merry-Go-Round ) described in detail how in 1939 Fish had received over $ 3, 100 in cash from a source with German ties.

On July 25, 1939, just five weeks before Hitler's invasion of Poland, the Polish General Staff's Cipher Bureau shared its Enigma-decryption methods and equipment with the French and British as the Poles ' contribution to the common defense against Nazi Germany.

She arrived in Honolulu February 8, 1939, aboard the SS Lurline, and spent nine weeks in Oahu, Maui, Kauai, and the island of Hawaii.

On 7 November 1939, Spaatz received a temporary promotion to colonel, and during the Battle of Britain in 1940, spent several weeks in England as a special military observer.

In the meanwhile, to the east of Poland, the Soviet Union was preparing its own military advance to occupy the eastern part of Poland in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact concluded between the USSR and Germany in August 1939, just weeks before the German invasion.

Under the terms of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 23 August 1939, adjusted by agreement on 28 September 1939, two weeks after the German invasion of western Poland, the Soviet Union invaded the portions of eastern Poland assigned to it by the Pact, followed by co-ordination with German forces in Poland.

Wolff and Githens ( 1939 ) described a 152 cm ( 60 inches ) specimen that yielded 3. 5 ml of venom during the first extraction and 4. 0 ml five weeks later ( 1. 094 grams of dried venom ).

The recording for Fantasia began in April 1939 for seven weeks.

The inmate population rose to 6, 000 in the following two weeks, on 15 September 1939.

When France declared war on Germany in 1939, Feuchtwanger was interned for a few weeks at Les Milles ( Camp des Milles ).

In the Christmas Raid in 1939, one million rounds of ammunition were stolen from the Irish Army by the IRA ( though it was mostly recovered in the following weeks ) and there were a number of killings, mostly of policemen.

Five weeks before the outbreak of World War II, on 25 July 1939, in Warsaw, the Polish Cipher Bureau revealed its Enigma-decryption techniques and equipment to representatives of French and British military intelligence, which had been unable to make any headway against Enigma.

On July 25, 1939, five weeks before the outbreak of World War II, the Polish General Staff's Cipher Bureau disclosed to their French and British allies, at Warsaw, their cryptologic achievements in breaking Enigma ciphers.

In fact Amery first visited Spain in 1939 after the civil war had ended and stayed for only a few weeks before returning to France, where he remained even after the German invasion and the creation of Vichy rule.