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Word: escorting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the game is finished, the Cadets will be given leave until midnight, and, in the words of West Point officials, "no police detail will be needed to escort them from the Stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colorful Cadet Parade Enters Stadium at 1:15 As Weekend Feature | 11/11/1939 | See Source »

...above all she is less noisy than before, which is certainly an asset. The picture, original in its angle, frankly follows along the lines of the Cinderella story even to the lost slipper. Only the coach and six is transformed into the Commissioner's car and a large escort of motorcycle police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/9/1939 | See Source »

...Baltic were advised to use the Kiel Canal to facilitate German search and seizure. And out over the North Sea sped squadrons of Nazi planes to attack the Allied convoys, a new phase of World War II. In the first two encounters of this sort last week, British escort warships held the Nazis off with gunfire until British fighters could arrive from their land bases. Four Germans were reported shot down, the merchantmen untouched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Oh, Mother! | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...from most of its European exhibitors. But Italy, War II's No. 1 neutral, obviously expects to fence-sit for at least another month. Already in the U. S. are the Italian experts who will re-crate the group of Renaissance masterpieces Italy sent to the Golden Gate, escort it back across the Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Exiled Art | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...directed by means of gyroscopes in their tails. The target's course and position can be calculated from, hydrophones. But warships have hydrophones too, and the British claim they can detect a submarine's position even when her motors are not running. Why Royal Oak or her escort failed to do so was another question. Evidently somebody blundered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: How Did It Happen? | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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