Word: hood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nelson, the Rodney, the Hood and the Renown (together the most powerful fighting unit in the world) escorted the Royal Yacht which flew the Royal Standard (embellished with seven lions and a harp). At a signal from the King Emperor destroyers led the attack on an imaginary foe. "Enemy" destroyers fired dummy torpedoes against the Hood and the Renown, near enough for His Majesty to see. Finally the battleships Warspite, Malaya and Valiant opened up with real broadsides, fired salvo after salvo from their 15-in. guns at a target ten miles away, made so much noise that they were...
...Author. Youngest son of a local artist of Robin Hood's Bay (Bramblewick), a Yorkshire fishing village, Author Walmsley ran off to sea when young, later became Curator of the Yorkshire Marine Biological Station. He served during the War in the Flying Corps, crashed 14 times. After a trip to the French Sahara as naturalist on a scientific expedition he took to writing adventure stories, a novel of African pygmy life, Toro of the Little People. The ache of War wounds made him drop writing, go home to become an inshore fisherman, try to market his invention of a collapsible...
Bristle-haired Raymond Hood exhibited a miniature bed as a symbol of his hobby which the gallery explained was Sleeping...
...move far in Germany without encountering?whether you know it or not?the name of Junkers. It may be on the radiator in your hotel room; on the locomotive of your train (it may have been in the engine room of the steamer which took you there); under the hood of your motorbus; on the hot water tap in your bathroom. If you travel by airline anywhere in Europe the odds are 2-to-1 that the name of Junkers is on your plane. Last week the Junkers name was in world-wide headlines. The Junkers Aircraft Company...
...great areas of his body are denuded of the skin and other agencies which help regulate body temperature. A cool breeze chills him. Hence his oven, a hood of sheet steel over his bed. Four big electric bulbs keep him comfortable at 103° F. His head, shoulders and arms are outside his hot box. Thus he can read, play cards, shake hands with visitors. His doctors hope to graft skin on him some day. Last week he cheered himself & his family thus: "They told me a guy is a dead soldier if more than one-third of his body...