Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probable carriers of these token shipments were lone ships which could steam some 16,000 miles around Cape Horn without refueling. Stealing secretly out of guarded ports, with radios silenced, a few such hermit ships had a fair chance of avoiding U.S. or British trade-route patrols. But what they carried around Cape Horn could only be a trickle. Declared the Ministry of Economic Warfare: "Many battlefields remain to be fought on before Germany and Japan can be said to be in contact with one another...
...When the horn stop Widener went off about 4 o'clock, the Navy was drilling in the Yard, and many people were standing around watching them. Several classes were in session in Sever and the other Halls. But within a very few minutes of the siren's wall, the Yard was cleared, passers-by and students were sent to shelter, and the Yard ARP force was in good working order...
...dawn. Actually there exists something between a dimout and peacetime illumination. From about half the buildings lights gleam through the large open windows. Street lamps have been extinguished, but cars have bright blue head lamps. There is little fear of air raids. The so-called warnings are pathetic horn toolings. The other day at high noon the British and American pedestrians completely ignored them...
...registering in Memorial Hall were temporarily interrupted early in the afternoon yesterday when the city of Cambridge tested its air raid warning mechanism, which is located on the top of Widener Library. After many attempts during the spring and winter to find a suitable place for the horn, which can be used as a public speaking system as well as a siren, authorities settled on Widener as the best spot in the vicinity, and have held several tests since it was installed...
...hand to sing old Scottish scolding ballads was Mrs. Lyda Messer Caudill, who says she is a hillbilly descendant of Mary Queen of Scots. Bud Oney, mighty, black-mustached blacksmith of Long Horn Hollow, fiddled Cherokee Girl, Lost Indian, other lively tunes. Youngest headliner was Bud McCoy, 4. whose family feuded bitterly for 57 years with the West Virginia Hatfields. Announcing numbers in her mountain dialect was tiny, thin-lipped Author Jean Thomas (Blue Ridge Country), the "traipsin' woman," who started collecting folk songs while she "traipsed"' over the mountains as a circuit court reporter, then founded...