Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clearly Minister Leygues, after all only a landlubber, had let his imagination run riot. When Germany startled the world with her "pocket battleships," none of which mounts more than an 11-in. gun (TIME, June 1, 1931). France retorted by laying down the "super-cruiser" Dunkerque which is expected to take the line next year. Mounting 13.2-in. guns and with a speed several knots faster than Germany's "pocket battleships," the Dunkerque is perhaps the most efficient and potentially destructive war boat in the world. France also possesses a high proportion of new submarines and superspeed destroyers...
...arms swing wider than is orthodox when running. Bonthron knew that Lovelock had run a mile against Yale-Harvard week before in 4:12.6, his best time, and was benefiting by the exhilaration which athletes usually feel for the first few days in a strange land. After the gun cracked, Hazen set the pace for the first quarter-mile, Bonthron and Lovelock at his heels. Officials and athletes under bright umbrellas in Palmer Stadium's centre field shook their heads. The runners were going much too fast. In the third quarter Horan moved out front. It proved...
...GRANDE - Harvey Fergusson - Knopf ($3). Time moves fast in the U. S., but in the Southwest it goes slower than elsewhere. Of Spanish feudalism only a "wistful remnant" is left; of the two-gun bad men only legends remain. But both the land and its natives, says Native Son Harvey Fergusson, are much the same as they were 300 years ago. There are still 9,000 Pueblo Indians, out of an estimated 25,000 when the Spaniards came. Author Fergusson says the Navajos are the only aboriginal people in the U. S. that have increased, have multiplied five-fold...
...Kundt sent tanks and flame throwers clattering into the Paraguayan shambles. As Bolivian troops poured in. thousands of little brown men fought back & forth in furious hand-to-hand combat. The sun went down and the moon came up. Two outlying Paraguayan forts were raked by merciless Bolivian machine gun fire. Paraguayans, famed as South America's fiercest fighters with bayonet and machete, rallied under the leadership of White Russian commanders, a stiff match for Bolivia's German officers under General Kundt. Soon in the jungle grass 2,000 men lay dead. Above & below Fort Nanawa the Bolivians...
Asked to make up a sentence using the words "hunter," ''dog.'' "forest." "gun," "rabbit," Banker Harriman drew an elaborate picture of a dark and gloomy forest, but forgot the gun. Asked to name five fish, he included a lobster and a shark...