Word: duringer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It is rare indeed the opportunity that one has of mentioning an error in your fine research staff. However, in the issue of Oct. 23, p. 30, there is the statement: "Although one old battleship, the Britannia, was downed by submarines two days before the Armistice in 1918, not a...
Hearty congratulations to TIME for recalling its Sports Editor from the Antarctic coverage of ice hockey among the penguins, or wherever he has been during Major Bob Neyland's twelve years as Head Football Coach at the University of Tennessee!
* In World War I, Admiral Jellicoe moved the Fleet from dangerous Scapa Flow to Belfast, Ireland. * Unofficial report is that the Admiralty had warning that some sort of raid was imminent, moved the Fleet out just in time. In his weekend oration (see p. 21), Mr. Churchill declared the Fleet...
"They [the Nazis] have not chosen to molest the British Fleet, which has awaited their attack in the Firth of Forth during last week. They recoil from the steel front of the French Army along the Maginot Line. But their docile conscripts are being crowded in vast numbers upon the...
Germans noted that the Führer repeated exactly the "historic phrases" he hurled against Poland on Sept. 1, the day the German Army began talking to the Poles with bombs and bullets. The talk about a long war was tempered by the announcement that unexplained "favorable developments in the...