Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest"; 2) "There must be a redistribution in Africa sooner or later"; and 3) "There is unrest among the German-speaking people of [Alsace]." This is the kind of Empire that Beaverbrook believes will best serve Britain's future and save its millions of Beaverbrook readers from becoming bomb and bullet fodder. That Lord Beaverbrook does believe in it is almost the only thing that can be said of him without dispute...
...never knew she was a Surrealist until Old Surrealist André Breton came to Mexico and told her so. In a note on her exhibition last week at the Julien Levy Gallery, Surrealist Breton expanded in precious French, ending by describing her painting as "a ribbon around a bomb...
...Douglas B18 bombers flying 180 miles southward from Langley Field, Va., to Fort Bragg. Ordered to fly at 4,000 feet the first night, to accustom the observers, bombers later went up to 18,000, 20,000 and 24,000 feet heights now practicable thanks to a new, secret bomb sight. Without fail, civilian groundlings heard or saw, got warnings to Fort Bragg within three minutes. On a headquarters defense map, lighted in red and green, winking bulbs "tracked" the course of the bombers with astounding accuracy. Indeed, Army airmen were shaken by the knowledge that even at great heights...
Peaceful, bomb-fearing Britons have for years been notably anxious to have Europe's air fleets limited by some kind of pact. Journalistic furor in London was therefore immense last week when unconfirmed rumors began buzzing that at Munich three weeks ago fat Field Marshal Hermann Göring genially told lean Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that an air pact not only is a good idea but ought to be signed on the basis that Germany can have three planes for every British...
...reputation. In perhaps the most exciting of the 300 college football games played last Saturday, a magnificently coordinated Army team kept him bottled up for almost three periods. At half time, Army was leading 18-to-6. But in the final minutes of the third quarter, Luckman began to bomb the Army's defense. In the last quarter, with Columbia trailing 13-to-18, Luckman threw three passes and three times succeeded in speeding the ball toward a touchdown in a 96-yd. drive. Although Fullback Gerry Seidel carried the ball over the goal line, the rousing cheers that...