Word: lone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While with the 51st Artillery, C. A. C. near Toul, France in 1918, I saw a lone enemy plane attack and destroy a captive balloon, miss a second, destroy a third, return and destroy the second, then fly home. The whole operation required but minutes, was done at a very low altitude (following a power dive) in broad day light, and in spite of the activities of anti-aircraft gunners stationed at balloon positions. I feel the same thing could be done today (TIME, June 23). I remember H. C. Barnes (then Major), onetime commander of our Battery...
...Flanders. For four years Williamson never went home, were never out of the trenches more than 4 hours. After the War he worked on the London Daily News, then retired to a workman's cottage in Devonshire to learn to write. Other books: The Dream of Fail-Women, The Lone Swallows, Sun Brothers, The Old Stag, Tarka the Otter, The Pathway, The Wet Flanders Plain, Dandelion Days...
...voting was a rout for the Non-Partisan League's Congressional candidates. In the third district Arthur Clarence Townley, the League's founder but lacking its endorsement, ran a poor third as a lone...
...usual place Disregarding formidable notices: PLEASE KEEP OUT! A bold Daily Mail reporter ducked under the curtain on a voyage of discovery. The great empty vault bare of scaffolding except for a few neglected planks, was complete, looked exactly as he had remembered it. Somewhere in the distance one lone carpenter was hammering slowly on a board...
...recognition." What moved Representative Garner, as a Texan, as Minority leader of the House and as a member of the House Ways & Means Committee, to advocate this major change was the apparent victory of the industrial Northeast over the South & West in the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill. If the Lone Star State were changed into a constellation of five, Mr. Garner foresaw eight additional Democratic Senators from the four new States - enough to over whelm Grundy-Republican-Tariffism. And incidently, under the Garner plan, what is now Texas would cast 28 electoral votes for President instead of 20. The mule...