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Word: againe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jellicoe strung out to prevent Scheer's return, rather than pursue him and risk a night battle. Scheer took that risk and, due to balled-up British orders and wireless, got through the British destroyers with loss of only one battleship. Each side claimed victory. The loss score was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Jutland No. II | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Last week inhabitants of Laesö island (see map), east of Denmark's northern tip, again heard heavy gun-thunder. They counted at least 200 shots and old-timers said it surely must be another great sea battle. Firing sounded either deep in the Skagerrak where a line of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Jutland No. II | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

> People on the American Farmer, which rescued 29 from the torpedoed British freighter Kafiristan, told about a British light bomber, the U-5-K appearing from nowhere while the submarine still lay by watching the rescue. A half-dozen men were on the U-boat's deck when the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Submarine v. Blockade | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Last week in London talent and adman alike twiddled, hoped that once war got in the groove, radio might again be able to sing for its supper. Radio Normandie has a snug little building around a corner from BBC's showy (and now sandbagged) Broadcasting House. Like everybody else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Gloomy Sundays | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Messmore Kendall, 67, wealthy Manhattan lawyer, real-estate tycoon, theatrical producer, president general of the stuffy Sons of the American Revolution, resigned his job as a Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. volunteer fireman, after 20 years in which he had attended only one fire, and that at his own house. Absentee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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