Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier Laval that "the British Government was ready to admit that the [Anglo-German] naval pact, or rather the method of its conclusion, had been regrettable and would prefer that it had not happened." This extraordinary statement, though entirely undercut in British fashion by its qualifying clause, seemed to mark the first admission by His Majesty's Government that in countersigning Adolf Hitler they may have historically blundered. The air having been cleared by this revelation, the British and French Governments, said Augur, "are now agreed that nothing done at Geneva can prevent Premier Mussolini's war machine from being...
...Major Alexander P. ("Sasha") de Seversky, Russian War ace, inventor, president of the Seversky Aircraft Corp. Accompanied only by his cocker spaniel, Vodka, he sent a 710-h. p. amphibian of his own design over a Detroit racecourse at 230.03 m.p.h., some 39 m.p.h. faster than the old mark. Unlike Record-Breaker Hughes, Pilot Seversky was well satisfied with his new amphibian record. But like Designer Hughes, Designer Seversky began tinkering his plane, muttered: "It'll go faster...
Elated, Miss Ingalls hustled off to bed, while Mrs. Putnam's technical adviser explained: "Miss Earhart's mark had remained so long she was anxious to have it supplanted by a much better record...
From his sanctum in Dunster the Vagabond hears a voice: College? A convention perhaps; just a necessary caste mark. But then again four years of unique opportunities. A soft-cushioned world to try your wings. All is here: Men from every walk of life; courses in every field. The college is for the student. Success or failure his own responsibility...
...York City: "Health officials said they would be unable to predict whether it would be safe to open the schools on Sept. 9 as scheduled. . . . This week should mark the peak of the current outbreak. . . . The death rate this year has been exceptionally low, less than...