Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Langley Field, Va. when the GHQ Air Force flew to California, four of the Army's four-engined Boeing "flying fortresses" made a surprise Sunday flight of 1,700 mi., north to Augusta, Me., inland to Rochester, N. Y. and return, with empty bomb racks but full machine-gun crews and equipment...
...Nolan's sweetheart. When Philip is tried by a military tribunal, she nervously wrings her hands in the back of the courtroom. When he is exiled, she follows him to Gibraltar. Boarding ship, Mary begs Stephen Decatur, who has Philip in custody, to let him command a gun against attacking pirates. Decatur gives in, a Berber battle song rings out, Mary makes her escape. In the fierce encounter that follows, Nolan is wounded, dies hearing Mary's imagined lullaby...
...Naval Science have large followings at Harvard as at other colleges. And if these R.O.T.C. men believe in the merits of preparedness and the rather completed ineptitude of the present U.S. force in comparison with other armies, let them make their grand demonstration today be but the opening gun in their own noise making campaign for the ideal of preparedness as against that of peace at any price...
After the half hour's review, the unit will break up into sections for individual drills. Service of the piece, equitation, harnessing, setting up communications systems firing a Trainer gun, and pistol practice are among the pastimes which will be engaged in for about an hour...
Bilbao. With few reserves and only a handful of modern planes to oppose the air squadrons of Italy arid Germany, Bilbao's Basques fought grimly on last week, but fought a losing battle. City defenders were cheered mightily when two companies of Basques with a single anti-tank gun and a barrier of three logs was able to put to flight a group of 18 Italian tanks, but in general the tide was against them. Basque lines were forced back to the third ring of steel and concrete trenches defending Bilbao. A key to the city was pine-covered...