Word: awayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the south one force drove up the narrow shore line to Sitjes and beyond. Barcelona was 15 miles away. From the northwest another column came down on Manresa. Barcelona was 30 miles away, but this force was headed toward the sea north of the Loyalist capital in an apparent effort to encircle the city, cut it off from France. The western attackers reached Martorell. Barcelona was 10 miles away...
Last week Sir Auckland Geddes, Wartime Minister of National Service, onetime Ambassador to the U. S., did not tranquilize the atmosphere when he told British housewives that they ought to put some things away for a bomby day. Not only should they store food; they should also store water in bottles and jugs. In order not to upset the commodity markets, he said, they should buy very slowly and calmly. English housewives are literal-minded. Next day merchants reported sales of canned goods and water jugs falling...
...through the grimy streets of Manchester. Suddenly a terrific explosion in the mains beneath the street hurled his body into the air. He was killed and his falling body seriously injured a passing postman. Almost at the same moment, Bam! another blast ripped open a street half a mile away. Bam! a third blew up the pavement a few hundred yards further on. Terror-stricken early risers, certain they were being bombed from the air, grabbed gas masks issued during the CzechoSlovak Crisis and rushed into the streets...
...history was Mollie Ticklepitcher from Turnip Top Ridge, Jasper, Tenn. Down Jasper way, she wrote, she was considered quite a character. She'd mid-wived most of the young'uns in her time and had helped lay out most of the dead ones, too. Never been away from home but wanted like everything to come to New York, particularly to say a word or two over the radio in behalf of fat people. Her fat son had been taking a lot of joshing-people used to say that when the circus came to town they couldn...
While American engine builders have plugged away for years on the development of the air-cooled radial engine, now close to perfection, German designers have worked at the liquid-cooled, in-line power plant. Result for the U. S.: the radial engine, with cylinders ranged like the spokes of a wheel around a short crankshaft, has grown to such size that its drag on the high-speed airplane is now of alarming proportions. (Head resistance increases as the square of the speed, e.g., if speed is tripled, drag becomes nine times as great.) Results for German designers: the in-line...