Word: feeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Observers interpreted last week's raid as a feeler. If the world grew incensed at this invasion of Chinese territory, Japan had an excuse: there was a riot, she had landed troops to suppress the riot. If the world, as it seemed to, overlooked it, Japan could try again...
...visibility against ice), 175 ft. long. Arched across its deck from stern to bow are two braced beams. They resemble sled runners. They really are runners, to enable the vessel to skid against the under side of polar ice. From the blunt, concrete-reinforced bow projects a long tubular feeler like the solitary tusk of the male narwhal. If under the dark ice the ship strikes an object (whale, rock, island, berg) which its great sub- aqueous searchlights do not disclose, the projecting feeler will ram back against compressed air and so absorb most of the shock. Since the boat...