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Word: boated (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 diving plane raked it with machine-gun fire. The submarine dived frantically, perhaps with its conning tower still open. The bomber, swooping twice again, dropped charges which almost certainly demolished the U-boat...

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

Among scores of grey shapes playing hide & seek in deadly earnest through the coastal waters around Great Britain was H. M. S. Courageous, oldest vessel of Britain's six aircraft carriers. Her broad, windswept flight deck was busy with planes coming & going to scout for U-boats. Last Sunday evening, just before the dusk hour at which the Athenia was sunk two Sundays prior, the eyes that saved others were not quick enough to save the Courageous. "There were two distinct bangs at intervals of about a second" (said a survivor) and the 22,500-ton craft - torpedoed squarely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Solid Blow | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

After the Courageous blow, the British Government announced that "many submarines" had been found and attacked "with little opposition from the German Air Force." The account of a British flier was released, telling how he spotted a U-boat two miles off, sneaked up on it behind a cloud. He opened fire at a man on the conning tower and let go a flight of bombs. These hit the water ahead of the submarine, which was diving. The explosions blew it back to the surface and "the nearest bomb of my second salvo was a direct hit on the submarine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Solid Blow | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

When World War II threatened last August, Metcalf speeded up his tempo to a frenzy. He thought he might never get another chance. Before War began Sept. 1, the Metcalfs caught the first U. S.-bound boat. As the French Government again began to remove its irreplaceable stained glass panes and chances seemed even that the windows which had survived nearly 800 years of Europe's wars might not survive this one, Robert Metcalf's 14,000 slides were the only complete record of these Gothic treasures in existence. The slides will be housed at the Dayton (Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Window Pains | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...flagpole of Baltimore's Fort McHenry, men in War of 1812 uniforms raised an American flag with 15 stars. Breasting slowly up the Patapsco River came a Coast Guard picket boat, opened fire with its single small forward gun as cannon from the fort returned rounds of blanks. At battle's end the flag on the fort still waved proudly. Thus re-enacted last week on its 125th anniversary was the episode which inspired Lawyer Francis Scott Key to write The Star-Spangled Banner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Anthem's Anniversary | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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