Word: graf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luck has contributed a spectacular share to the naval encounters of World War II. When the British knocked out the fire-control tower of the Admiral Graf Spee and when the Germans dropped a bomb smack down on the plane elevator shaft of the Illustrious, something more than skill was involved. Considering the fact that the average number of hits in sea battle at long range comes to little more than 2% of rounds fired, the hit on one of Hood's magazines from extreme range of nearly 13 miles was fantastically lucky. And the British had their share...
...From Moscow last week came a strong smell of diplomatic fermentation. On the eve of German Ambassador Friedrich Werner Graf von der Schulenburg's return from a long stay in Berlin the Russian press made two significant announcements that: 1) 12,000 German troops had landed in Finland, within 50 miles of the Russian base at Hanko; 2) since March 18 shipment of war materials across the U.S.S.R. had been forbidden...
Pleased with the scare, the British gave a further nip to American adrenals by announcing that Germany's two powerful battle cruisers, the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau (each 26,000 tons, each faster and better-armed than the late pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec), were indeed at large and as far west as the 42nd meridian. Displeased with the scare, the Axis press nevertheless aggravated it by jubilating at the alleged sinking of the first shipload of U. S. armaments bound for Britain under the Lend-Lease...
...Herbert Graf, stage director of the Metropolitan Opera Association of New York and of the San Francisco Opera Company, will give a free, public lecture Friday evening, March 14, on "Opera as a Popular Art in America," at 8:30 o'clock in the Music Building here...
...Graf has been professionally active in opera, in Europe and the United States, since 1925. Before coming to the United States in 1934 he was stage director of opera houses in Breslau, Frankfurt, Basle and Prague...