Word: interceptive
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...base at Leros in that happy hunting ground of submarines-the Aegean. The master stroke of recent Italian history was the seizure of Albania. For between Albania's capital of Tirana and the Greek port of Salonika there is a trough, along which Italian troops could move to intercept a Franco-British thrust into the Balkans...
...show U. S. civilians and taxpayers what their nation's wings look like and how they can fly. The length of the Pacific Coast, civilians were organized into a "listening network" to detect the approach of "enemy" planes which defenders from March and Hamilton fields flew up to "intercept...
...Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau of France, who passed a beam of light through the teeth of a spinning cogwheel. The light struck a mirror, bounced back to the wheel. The wheel had been timed to move just enough in the brief interim for the teeth of the wheel to intercept the light as it was reflected. By timing the revolutions per second of the cogwheel and measuring the distance to the mirror, it was easy to calculate the speed of the light...
PERPIGNAN--Insurgent warships headed by the cruiser Canarias appeared off the French coast tonight, supposedly to intercept Loyalist officials if they should attempt to reach Valencia...
...area" over the North Sea. The German air services meekly obeyed. But the proud Royal Dutch Airlines responded with a bristling reply to the British Air Ministry: THE NORTH SEA BELONGS TO NO NATION AND NOBODY IS EMPOWERED TO CLOSE IT TO INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC. IF ANY BRITISH FIGHTERS INTERCEPT OUR LINERS . . . THERE WILL BE SERIOUS COMPLAINTS. There were no interceptions...