Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hold-up should be the first thought to occur to the most inexperienced in the ways of gangsters. Likewise, from all sides comes advice concerning teletype, vault alarms, swiftness of justice, and consolidated detective agencies, yet few take seriously any suggestion to enforce strictly the limiting of machine gun sales to authorized persons...
Longest row of boxes was occupied by short-legged, lop-eared cocker spaniels, which topped this year's entry list with 161. Excellent gun dogs, they are steadily becoming more popular as pets. With all six finalists in the ring upstairs foreign-bred, a cocker named The Great My Own was last week named best U.S.-bred dog in the show. Not since 1922 has a U.S.-bred dog won best-in-show at Westminster...
...sand; the pilot is shot as he starts toward the trees. By this time Arab snipers, concealed by the dunes, have picked off all but three of the troop. None of the three can fly but Morelli (Wallace Ford) and the sergeant dismount the plane's machine gun, set fire to the plane and get back to the oasis under cover of the smoke. Sanders (Boris Karloff) goes mad and gets his bullet when he is stumbling across the sand with his clothes torn like a prophet's, carrying a cross. Morelli is killed trying to drag...
...reasons: "Europe's general staffs still believe in the effectiveness of mass movements and think the larger their armies are the more powerful will they be. The fallacy of the theory was exposed a generation ago by the mechanical progress which made one man, sitting behind a machine-gun, the superior of a hundred or even a thousand who were advancing against him with rifle and bayonet.* "Machine guns of every kind have multiplied everywhere since the last war, increasing the already overwhelming advantage of defensive forces on land. In contrast, artillery
...decreased in proportion. That perhaps matters little, because at its utmost the larger gun was an inefficient and uneconomic machine-gun destroyer. "Gas, particularly mustard gas, will increase the helplessness of large armies. . . . It is doubtful whether the armies would ever come to the point of sighting each other. "Most likely air forces will strike in the first hour of the next war before mobilization has begun. . . . The intricate mobilization machinery of the modern horde army is the easiest thing in the world to throw out of gear. The centralization of water, light, heat and power supplies all make dislocation...