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Word: guet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left a note saying he was going to a rendezvous with General Nicholas Skobline, one of his assistants. The note ended: "Peut-être c'est un guet-apens" (Perhaps it is an ambush). There are witnesses who later that day saw a big box carried on board the Soviet freighter which lay unloading hides at Le Havre. Without completing her unloading, without properly clearing port, the Mary a Ulyanova cast her hawsers and scuttled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Trial & Conviction | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...later efforts undoubtedly are lost to history, but in 1871 a helicopter of obscure fate was built in France by M. A. Penaud. Experiments were made with slight success in 1905 by the Dane, Ellehammer; in 1906 in France by the Brazilian, Santos-Dumont, in 1907 by M. Bréguet. By 1923 Austria had its Petroczy; Great Britain its Brennan; France its Damblanc, Oemichen and Pescara; Spain its la Cierva. In the U. S., meanwhile, Henry Berliner, Baltimore aircraft builder, had spent a fortune in a decade's experiment, and Rumanian Professor Georges de Bothezat was conducting researches at McCook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Vertical Flight | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

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