Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After last week's air-raid tests German officials could boast that it takes 4,000,000 Berliners just one minute to clear the streets and scurry into air-raid shelters. A year ago the record was two minutes. Germany claims to have a peerless Air Force. But there is no sure defense against air raids and if Germany starts bombing London the one thing that might worry Berlin is a retaliatory raid. When the first "raid" occurred last week thousands of Berliners were hurrying home from work. Red flares, black flags, and roped-off streets indicated places that...
...Care of Your Gas Mask and Your Gas Mask Will Take Care of You." When enemy planes are overhead, "the motto for safety will be Keep it Dark." Britons are warned to memorize the types of raid signals. The man who confuses hand rattles ("gas") with hand bells ("all clear") will be sorry that he did not do his homework...
...interpreted in this way. But, he added, all three realize that "indirect aggression might be just as dangerous as direct aggression and all three desire to find a satisfactory method of providing against it." Britain and France would consequently send military missions to Russia to begin staff talks. Clear-cut as these disclosures were, they would have been far more impressive had correspondents not counted so many unhatched eggs in the four-and-a-half months before they were made...
Mesdames Goddard, Camp, Lycan and Stockwell then turn about and caution their students against slang, thereby making it pretty clear that they do not know 1939 slang from third base. American English gives students some good instruction on how to write different types of prose, address letters and judge a radio program, but even the nice little boys & girls for whom it was written are likely to wonder how Schoolmarms Goddard, Camp, Lycan and Stockwell got so chummy with that old goat, the English language. Sample passage...
President Grace made some other matters equally clear. He put cost savings on continuous mill production at $6 to $8 per ton of sheet and strip, added that Steel's hard-boiled Detroit customers have now chiseled every last cent of this profit out of the steel price, admitted that the sale of the balance of 1939 auto steel going at May's cut prices (TIME, May 22) was more a pious hope than the gloomy admission it sounded like...