Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large estates were divided up and the land given to the peasants. Earle was in lots of air-raids. "My most scary moment," he says, "was the night we spent on the 'Washington' at Le Havre before sailing. We noticed that afternoon that about 100 yards from where the boat was lying on the dock, there was a small island with about 100 large oil tanks on it. One well aimed bomb would have finished...
Lowman was a dark horse, although he was one of the scored players, and was not given a chance to boat Burt, who had won the tournament for the past three years. Burt, Lowman, and Palfrey got to the semi-finals as expected, but then Palfrey pulled an upset by defeating Burt after dropping the first...
...Last Panay Life-Boat...
While the doomed vessel was sinking after the attack by Japanese airplanes, James unwittingly earned for himself the name of here. As he was in the last boat to leave the ship, he spent the interval of waiting rummaging among the sailors' lockers to see if he could pick up anything that was left behind. He found a few blankets and cigarettes...
...shot came close enough to splatter splinters on a cruiser. Two German planes, either crippled or lost, made forced landings in Danish territory, one went down off the Danish coast and one in Norway. Attacking force, according to the British: 50 planes; according to an excited Norwegian fishing boat captain...