Word: blitzkriegers
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Last week the State of Michigan suddenly but soundlessly expanded-from 57,980 to 97,940 square miles. No cataclysm, no Blitzkrieg, not even litigation was the cause. The U. S. Bureau of the Census, which was already having trouble enough with its decennial count, simply capitulated to Chase Salmon Osborn...
William M. Layton, Jr. '43, who lives in Hollis, was quoted as saying, "There may be something in this ghost business." But the consensus is that Hollis is in for a snowball "Blitzkrieg" tonight...
...Thirty-Fourth Street, Manhattan department store, gave four judges-Publisher Wilfred Funk, Actress Helen Hayes's mother Catherine Hayes Brown, Singer Lanny Ross, Quizzer Craig ("Professor Quiz") Earl-the task of choosing a word to replace "mother-in-law." Several hundred entries, including Motherette, Mother Rat, Ersatz Mother, Blitzkrieg Mother, Mother-link, were discarded in favor of "Kin-Mother." Commented Lexicographer Funk: "These synthetic words . . . seldom catch on." "Kin-Mother" did not catch on in Amarillo, Tex., where next day Kin-Mother Mrs. L. O. Thompson, first president of the National Mother-in-Law Club, carried a sign reading...
...sort of havoc that might well have been created by a first-class shower of Nazi bombs of the type Poland had last September. Actually, it was caused by a Blitzkrieg of the elements. What gave it additional martial atmosphere was that nowadays British weather is a military secret. The censor-fearing London newspapers carried no weather news at all in a spell of such weather as had not been seen in the Isles for 46 years. Hush-hushed was the fact that the British capital was covered with snow, that snowdrifts twelve feet high were piled...
...plane called the Defiant with speed enough and ample fire-power to cut down Germany's new 315-m.p.h. Junkers bombers (Ju88). Berlin claimed the week's raids proved the British Isles "vulnerable." The British claimed their defense had proved itself ample to cope with a spring Blitzkrieg...