Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Lieut. T. S. K. Maunsell he at once put the ship's boat about and steered away from Turkey but the soldiers opened fire. Crack!-A bullet tore through the flesh of Lieut. Maunsell's shoulder. Crack!-Another shot got Surgeon Lieut. D. J. W. Robinson. He spun up, clutching his side, toppled overboard and disappeared. As the Turks kept on firing, wounded Lieut. Maunsell and the remaining British officer dived into the Aegean and swam for dear life toward Greece until picked up by other pleasure-bent Britons...
...Berlin and Warsaw, instructing His Majesty's ambassadors in the two capitals to bring the Eastern Locarno strongly to the attention of those governments. Poland, which must do as France and Russia wish in any case, was thus subjected to formal urging so as to avoid seeming to crack down exclusively on Adolf Hitler...
...illegible that, what with Mr. Smith's proneness to typographical errors, the members could hardly decipher his writings. The youngest member was not there. Felix Moitoret, 11, stayed in Oakland. Calif, where he publishes The High Filth Herald. He was represented by Father Anthony J. ("Tony") Moitoret, crack political writer for the Oakland Tribune...
...assembled correspondents, reminding them that while Germany has a favorable trade balance with the United Kingdom she has an unfavorable balance with the British Empire as a whole. This fact gave Dr. Schacht a chance to threaten "complete rejection of all further intercourse" with the Empire, should the Kingdom crack down on Germany...
Indulgently Nazi Rust did not crack down on Professor Planck, but as president of the Society Herr Planck dolefully reported that 85 scientists have sent in their resignations and are suffering "economic difficulties" under the Nazi regime...