Word: awayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ponzano, Wood-town, Pensilva) and a Danish steamer (Canada) all blew up in nearshore British waters. Certainly the British would not mine roadsteads used by their own ships. Nor could mines drifting loose from British defense fields be blamed since British mines are designed to become harmless after breaking away from their anchorages, as required by international convention. Certainty came when, driven by gales, mines of German make washed ashore in quantities along the British North Sea coast and in Belgium, bashing into piers and bulkheads with savage detonations, frightful flotsam set afloat by the nation whose leader promised that...
...then scrubbed, and listed as white. One man saved his small daughter by pushing her ahead of him through the sludge on a packing case. While being rescued by tugs and trawlers, Bolivar's survivors could see the Yugoslav ship Carica Milica (6,371 tons) sinking not far away, also mined. Some hours later, in the same vicinity, down went the British Black hill, Torchbearer, Wigmore; the Swedish B. O. Borjesson, the Italian Grazia (the war's first casualty under Mussolini's flag). This free floating peril in the North Sea for neutrals as well as combatants...
...Hitler and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador to Turkey, famed Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen, declared: "It is quite clear what Germany is fighting for. It is to avoid a repetition of the tragedy of Versailles and to build a better Europe. It is to do away once and for all with the necessity of European nations fighting each other twice in a century to establish 'European equilibrium'.... England proposes a European Commonwealth for the future. She had had ample time since the last war to establish it. Now it will be Germany...
Mendel's sensational goal was his third shot in the last quarter of the game, but the other two had been stopped by Poole, star Eli goalie. The winning tally was a shot that no goalie could have saved, a whistling liner from about ten yards away that slid into a corner...
Number one is short shock headed, and a Senior. He looks like a pouter pigeon in his football uniform. For two years he plugged away on the Jayvees as blocking back and guard, and got his chance on the Varsity this fall. After the Penn game Dick Harlow said, "He was out manned. I thought the Penn guards would ride him into the Charles River...