Word: athwart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They were being strengthened, but the last "blockship," which was to have been sunk athwart a channel to complete the Flow's blockade, did not arrive until the day after Royal Oak was torpedoed...
...since Munich, however, has the British Empire been so obliging as when it arranged last week to hand over to Generalissimo Franco the Island of Minorca, one of the choicest of Mediterranean strategic plots. Lying athwart the French line of sea communications to North Africa and not far from the British Mediterranean "lifeline" to the East, Minorca was so strongly fortified (by British guns before the war) that the Loyalists had held on to the island since the war's start despite attacks by the Rebel Navy and Italian ships and planes. Nearby Majorca, bigger but not stronger...
...three of them were horribly injured, one dying three days later. Driver Silcox was dead. No bus crash had ever cost so much life; the last biggest at Salem, Ill., March, 1937, took 20 lives. Utah's Public Service Commission, painfully aware of the danger that lay athwart the State's other 2,054 unprotected grade crossings, sought jurisdiction over all the State's school buses, planned to delegate to one older student in each bus the job of flagging his bus over railroad tracks...
...Science last week appeared a report announcing discovery and classification of a great stream of galaxies, the greatest of metagalactic clouds. It is 50,000,000 light-years long, 20,000,000 wide. Discovered on plates taken at Harvard's Southern Hemisphere station in South Africa, it lies athwart the sky near the Fouth celestial pole. Fifteen thousand galaxies or "island universes" were counted in it, all of them below the 16th magnitude in brightness. At first the cloud was classed simply as a "major irregularity." But the savants at Cambridge reasoned that it must contain at least...
...climax of the year, for in a sense the torch of learning was taken up by new rumors and carried on toward the future. And, even more tickling than the great events within the university, was the political debacle of the man who, more than anyone else, has stood athwart the free educational stream, the present Governor of the Commonwealth...