Word: franticness
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...took off from Oakland on the 2,400-mi. water hop to Honolulu. Nineteen hours later, off-course and lost, the plane's radio crackled out the dread letters PAN, emergency call of the air. Half hour later, fuel exhausted. Lieutenant Ulm landed on the water, sent out a frantic SOS.* Stella Australis could float for 48 hours in a calm sea. But the Pacific became rough and after 48 hours no trace of the Ulm plane had been found by 34 Army & Navy planes, 18 U. S. submarines, three minelayers, countless small craft. To spur the search, the Australian...
Although your correspondent appreciates your attempt to tone down the frantic demands of Harvard graduates for a "big-time" football team, I cannot permit to go unnoticed the following statements in the editorial in yesterday's paper. It states: "The majority of graduates, unfortunately, retain their Harvard connection only through the football team, with the result that large endowment funds and winning elevens tend to go hand and hand. Even if the College believes their views wrong, it is often impolitic to disregard them." There is absolutely no support whatever for the statement that at Harvard large endowments depend...
...seen currently in The First World War) was obtained. On June 11, 1918, the St. Stephan, flagship of the Austrian Navy, was attacked in the Adriatic by Italian torpedo boats. A torpedo found its mark and the St. Stephan began to list and sink with terrible rapidity. Frantic Austrian sailors are to be seen clambering up her steep deck and over onto her almost horizontal side. At that point the ship quivers convulsively, shakes many of them off into the water. Others manage to stay on the St. Stephan's upside-down hull as she turns completely over. Finally...
...rdeler was Leipzig's Mayor. Reviled by Nazi orators for years, he is still emphatically no Nazi. His name inspires confidence among middleclass Germans who. fearful of acute shortages in the Fatherland this winter, have lately been buying up foodstuffs and clothing in a frantic rush to hoard (TIME, Aug. 6). One day last week Herr Hitler abruptly raised non-Nazi Mayor Gördeler once more to the rank of Price Dictator, made him "solely responsible to the Realmleader...
...managed to pull M. Citroën out of his deep, dark red. Last week, pale and determined, the Ford of France faced his bankers. They were tired of carrying him, with extension after extension (TIME, March 12). They wanted to foreclose. With a frantic gleam in his dark eyes André Citroën shrilled "Messieurs, on the day I am deprived of control over the business I have built up I shall commit suicide...