Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...High Seas 38 miles off the coast of Spain last week were loosed upon the U. S. destroyer Kane which was flying the Stars & Stripes at her mainmast and had an enormous U. S. flag spread flat on top of her well-deck awning. All six bombs missed their mark. The Kane fired back at the monoplane nine rounds from her anti-aircraft gun. All nine rounds also went wild. At once the U. S. Press went wild with screaming headlines. From Rapid City, S. Dak., where he received the news, President Roosevelt ordered Secretary of State Hull to "protest...
What followed put a terrific strain on the Popular Front coalition which supports the Blum Cabinet. Scarcely could French Communists believe their ears when they heard that Premier Blum, not only a Jew but also a Socialist, had greeted with every mark of courteous amity the first German Cabinet minister to go to Paris since the Nazis came to power in Berlin. As for Dr. Schacht, he seemed to have permission from Realmleader Hitler to forget for the duration of his Paris visit everything Germans have been told to remember about Jews and Marxists. After lunching at the Bank...
...plumb the implications of Dr. Buchman's plea was Zion's Herald, influential New England Methodist weekly which editorialized: "Just what would happen if Adolf Hitler, shorn of all his pagan power, were suddenly to become a St. Francis of Assisi? Would not such a conversion immediately mark the end of all bluster, swashbuckling, regimentation, coercion, intolerance, and persecution? Dictatorship would instantly fade away at the touch of Christ, whose whole method was teaching and persuasion...
Five strokes (letters or spaces) counted as a "word" regardless of the actual words of the text. But a wrong letter, a space in the wrong place, a wrong indention, a wrong punctuation mark, was an error that cost a ten "word" penalty against the total score...
Those who passed this year with highest distinction, and the names of their preparatory schools, are: Henry F. Allen, of Boston, Mass., St. Mark's School; Jack D. Andrews, of St. Paul, Minn., University of Minnesota High School; Richard R. Beatty, Jr., of Kansas City, Mo., Junior College of Kansas City; Harold Brown, of Dorchester, Mass., Boston Latin School; Robert M. Bunker, of West Roxbury, Mass., Roxbury Latin School; John J. Carchia, of Cambridge, Mass., Cambridge High and Latin School; Lawrence F. Ebb, of Dorchester, Mass., Boston Latin School; Karl F. Guthe, Ann. Arbor, Mich, University of Michigan High School...