Word: leaked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franco, whose own offensive has been eight weeks delayed, apparently had other troubles to contend with. All week he kept the French and Portuguese frontiers tight shut, but rumors continued to leak through: A "vast conspiracy by foreign elements" had threatened the lives of Franco & several of his officers and a large amount of cash had been stolen from the Rightist treasury at Salamanca...
...after their grandmothers' health in the midst of traffic ... fire engines will proceed at a snail's pace, their staff stopping on the way to gaze at and dispute over the number of passing wild geese in the sky." But he is glad U.S. faucets do not leak like the Chinese brand. "If I contradict myself here as a Chinese." shrugs Dr. Lin. "I am happy as a Chinese that I contradict myself...
Outward-bound to Rotterdam with a treacherous cargo of scrap-iron last week, the 5,815-ton Greek freighter Tzenny Chandris had barely cleared the port of Morehead City, N. C. when in the lash of a whining nor'easter she sprang a leak. After a three-day battle against heavy seas, the boat was in bad shape off Cape Hatteras. her frightened crew of 28 begged Captain George Coufopandelis to flash an S. O. S. to one of the several vessels which passed by. But he ordered them back to the failing pumps, confident the old freighter, bought...
...technique requires an electrical gadget whose invention may bring Dr. Burr a Nobel Prize. In a box small enough to be carried around are four different kinds of electric batteries, a delicate galvanometre, two radio vacuum tubes, eleven resistors, one grid leak and four switches. "The actual construction should be undertaken by an experienced mechanic who is thoroughly familiar with radio set construction," says Dr. Burr, who is prepared to show any proper investigator a sketch of the wiring diagram...
...second-class, in the Jim Crow car. When the conductor threatened to stop the train and have him arrested, he gave in, fumed in the Jim Crow car for four hours. When he reached his destination Congressman Mitchell said nothing of the incident and news of it did not leak out. Shortly after his arrival at Hot Springs he received a warm letter of welcome from Arkansas' Governor Bailey and letters from Little Rock's acting Mayor and Chamber of Commerce president, welcoming him to their city for a speech he was scheduled to make there after...