Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after the period began. Toan and Thomas soon put the Green well out in front, however, with good passing and accurate shooting. With four minutes and twenty seconds to go, Harvard took a time out, and when play was resumed Dartmouth succeeded in slowing up the play until the gun went...
...plan drafted by British experts during adjournment of the Conference for the funeral of King George. For the experts spoke the First Lord of the Admiralty, Viscount Monsell. He assented to 35,000 tons as the capital ship maximum; asked reduction to 14 in. of the present 16 in. gun calibre maximum on such ships; urged that aircraft carriers be cut from the present maximum of 27,000 tons with 8 in. guns to 22,000 tons with 6.1-inchers. Continuing, Lord Monsell proposed that further building of London Naval Treaty "A" Cruisers (10,000 tons) be postponed for five...
...Foreign Secretary and Mrs. Anthony Eden, then made such a night of it that next morning frantic Rumanian attaches went about bleating . "Our King is lost!" and only found him just in time to rush His Majesty aboard his special boat train. Dover Castle gave him a farewell 21-gun salute as he stepped aboard the British destroyer Montrose. Of the five kings attending the funeral only two, Carol of Rumania and Boris of Bulgaria, were ferried across the Channel on a British destroyer; in addition they both received the honor of an escort of two more British destroyers...
...maneuvers themselves proved of little interest to the public. Using Mitchel Field, N. Y., Concord, N. H. and Burlington, Vt. as bases, 62 pursuit, attack and bombing planes carrying 216 men, began chasing back & forth over snowy hills to test equipment and find out, among other things, if machine-gun oil will lubricate at sub-zero temperatures. What made last week's war game newsworthy was the presence of the world's first Flying Flagship. A twin-motored Douglas DC2 transport, it is the first of three ordered by the Air Force at $85,000 apiece. Under...
...Uncle Sam is closing in on the Duke with a vengeance. Tenser and tenser becomes the rack on which everybody including the audience is strung, until there comes the inevitable snap. Startling things happen in the denouement, to the staccato tune of rifle and machine-gun fire. And as you leave the theatre, slightly stupefied, you find all sorts of psychological problems of intricate relationships and true identities clamoring for solution. You also find six or sever characters impressed indelibly if somewhat confusedly upon you memory, which is saying a lot for a movie. "The Petrified Forest" is an awesome...