Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Notre Dame team that has shown flashes of greatness, that play was a satisfactory climax for the season. Earlier in the game, mainly a battle between two titanic lines, a long Notre Dame pass and a short Army pass had given each team a touchdown. Two minutes later the gun made the final score Notre Dame 12, Army...
...close study of aristocratic Japanese interiors, got shots of harbors cluttered with boats, of Japanese street crowds. He claimed that he made films of naval maneuvers which were confiscated by the Japanese authorities. Upon Farkas' return to Paris, Garganoff borrowed a French warship, made action sequences in her gun turrets, on her decks, on her bridge, with Japanese actors impersonating Japanese sailors. To piece out the action U. S. newsreel shots of battle maneuvers, gunfire and torpedo practice were purchased from...
...Battle's battle: white uniforms on the bridge flapping against a grey sky in what seems to be a mingled whine of wind and speeding turbines; the commander getting the enemy's range again & again in his finder, announcing it in a flat singsong; one gun turret after another reporting "Ready"; a lone survivor in one gun turret groping to the telephone for instructions; sailors, protected by masks and helmets, staggering about in fume-filled turrets, loading the guns (see cut, p. 44). The battle is bitter and bloody. When it is over and victory has been...
...this time, when Germany most needs the support of the world, France is busying herself building cement trenches and machine gun nests on her frontier, and supporting a fleet of 5,000 military planes in deadly fear that Germany is secretly preparing for war. And yet it is only the politicians and newspapers of Paris that seem to fear and imagine this war, for again and again in the frontier provinces," Mr. Villard said. "I have found the peasants and towns people in perfectly friendly relations with the Germans...
...threat to amateur tennis is a man of jovial mien. Plump Bill O'Brien was born 39 years ago in Manhattan. He took up professional baseball, became an accountant, was rejected by the Army because of poor eyesight, squeaked through a second examination to become the champion machine-gun marksman of the Tenth Division. After the War he studied osteopathy, trained Harry Greb, the French Davis Cup team, Suzanne Lenglen, Red Grange, Richards, Hunter, Tilden...