Word: intact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from three to five feet. Rightist Pilot Heraclio Gautier flew over the river to photograph the effects of the flood on Leftist pontoon bridges. His plane was winged by some 200 bullets. In the best Ratisbon tradition, he came back, managed to land in Rightist territory with photographs intact, died still at the controls...
...sparing of Negro Norris last week kept intact the boast of Lawyer Leibowitz that no client of his had ever been executed. Two days later in Manhattan, one Salvatore Gati, 28, was sentenced to die the week of August 15 for murdering a policeman. His lawyer, Samuel Leibowitz, was en route to Europe...
...Hong Kong. 90 miles south of Canton at the mouth of the Pearl River; 2) the demoralization of the civilian population. By the end of last week the first had not been achieved-Chinese anti-aircraft batteries still blazed away at the bombers, stores of munitions were still intact, and the vital railway was still open. But the second objective was more than fulfilled. Terror-stricken thousands fled to the safety of the paddy fields and their "lucky hills," pockmarked with the huge stone armchair graves of their dead. Thousands more surged up to the gates of Hong Kong, only...
...last week a special permit to pass behind Lenin's tomb in Red Square, Moscow to the Red heroes' burial place at the base of the Kremlin Wall. His mission was to investigate the grave of John Reed, U. S. Communist, journalist and poet. He found it intact. The first American to visit the grave since U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union William C. Bullitt placed a wreath on it in 1932, Corliss Lamont hoped to spike rumors that Reed's body had been removed and that Reed, because of his praise of Leon Trotsky...
...Glueck's finds indicate that the busy inhabitants of Solomon's port, besides carrying on sea trade, ship-building and fishing, smelted copper and manufactured such copper implements as spearheads, fishhooks, nails. Some of the flues in the ancient smelter are still intact, and the north wind causes a strong draft through them. Dr. Glueck believes the necessity for such a natural draft was the reason this site was chosen for smelting...