Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that night or since. By 3 a. m. he phoned Ambassador Kennedy at his country house that the Athenia was sinking, torpedoed by a German submarine, with 1,418 people aboard, some 300 of them Americans (TIME, Sept. 11. Kennedy cabled to Franklin Roosevelt: "All on Athenia rescued except those killed by explosion. The Admiralty advises me survivors picked up by other ships. List of casualties later. Thank...
...break through the Wall here does not involve the added difficulty of crossing the Rhine. And neutral Luxembourg guards the French left flank. Last week the lower reaches of the Maginot Line and Westwall, facing each other across the Rhine from Lauterbourg south to the Swiss border, lay quiet except for occasional, experimental artillery exchanges. Soldiers of both armies were reported bathing on their respective sides of the river, in full view of each other. Signs on the German side said: "We have orders not to fire on you until you fire...
...high horror note for civilians of Britain and France.* This war's note was so confidently expected to be the shattering bellow of dive-bombers that congested areas of France and England were evacuated before war was declared. Through last week, no such note was heard except for a non-bombing visit toward Paris by a few Nazi reconnaissance ships, who retreated as soon as spotted, and a jittery performance near Britain's big Thames-mouth base at Chatham...
...highest since 1937. Next day, permissible limits were hit again. In two days untabulated millions of bushels of wheat changed hands. Brokers saw in World War II a drain down which the U. S. could pour its back-breaking crop surpluses at a handsome profit (except for cotton, no war commodity...
...Grenoble, France, detectives visited a suburban villa, found everything portable had been stolen from it except a cellarful of rare vintage wines. They scoured the neighborhood for a teetotaler, found abstemious Giuseppe Alata, 17. He confessed...