Word: loss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protecting screen of destroyers to scuttle for home. The Admiralty figured that if the sea was too rough for destroyers it was too rough for U-boats too, that the cruisers were therefore safe. That was a mistake. All three of the cruisers were torpedoed and sunk, with a loss of 60 officers and 1,400 men. Long afterward it was learned that a single submarine, the U-9, had done the job alone, launching six torpedoes, and had escaped without a scratch though fired on by both Hogue and Cressy...
...occurred. The Admiralty sent an electric thrill of horror through the nation by tersely announcing, with regrets, that "His Majesty's Ship Royal Oak has been sunk, it is believed by U-boat action." Royal Oak* was a battleship of 29,150 tons, built in 1914, and her loss reduced from 15 to 14 the number of Britain's capital ships. The time and place of the sinking were not officially divulged, but it appeared to have happened between midnight and dawn...
Whatever happened, the British authorities not only confessed the loss to their own people but broadcast the news in German to Germany. There it was confirmed by the German radio and jubilation reigned in the streets. Believing that Britain's blockade of Germany had been seriously weakened, Nazis trotted out a triumphant slogan: "England, Bend Or Break...
...loss of Mendel, however, and the consistently poor showing of the eleven throughout the past week does not make Harvard as overwhelming a favorite as the comparative scores would indicate. The captain scored both the goals in the Williams game...
...modified by the material on the squad. Chizmadia, Connell, and Rainwater are three lucking backs who generate power aplenty. They are all too big to become accomplished spinners so they just lower their heads and ram into the line for their yardage. It's much loss complicated that way, and there are three of them to alternate at the thankless task. So you'll see less spinning from the Quakers than from the Crimson, but more plays on a direct pass from center...