Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leningrad, Germany's official foreign news service, Dienst aus Deutschland, indicated last week that the German High Command was satisfied to hoard this hard nut and not try to crack it. "A prestige attack on this city, in which probably every cellar is loaded with dynamite, would demand sacrifices that cannot be justified, for our really decisive forces are needed on another front...
...watts of electric power, the vibrations ripple from a great antenna outward in waves 26 meters long. In no time at all (for their speed is that of light], they reach a point in the darkness 3,000 miles away. A man there has a receiving set in his cellar tuned to the right wave length. He is risking prison or maybe death to hear the voice of the distant man at the microphone. To him it means Liberty and Truth...
...CASE OF THE EMPTY TIN-Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). A code scratched on a tin can in the dusty corner of a California cellar gives Perry Mason his first clue in a case of double murder. Departs in many ways from the familiar Mason formula-and is much the better...
...surprise that on Sept. i clothing prices had crept up 17%, food prices 24% above pre-war levels. (U.S. rises 7% and 18% in the same period.) Minister Ilsley and his special board of consulting economists had an eye out for just such inflationary storm warnings, had a storm cellar ready. This month they laid their economic plans before Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and his full Cabinet...
Bursting into this gigantic city the [enemy] will come into a stone labyrinth, where every house will be for them either a riddle, or a threat, or a mortal danger. Whence can they expect a blow? From the window? From the attic? From the cellar? From around the corner? Everywhere. At our disposition are rifles, machine guns, hand grenades. We can cover some streets with barbed-wire entanglements, leave others open and turn them into traps. It is only necessary that some thousands of men should firmly decide not to give...