Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Headquarters Air Force of the U. S. Army is known as the M-Day (Mobilization Day) force. Its men and equipment are supposed to be ready to take the air at a moment's notice, concentrate at any point in the U. S. to fight off attackers. Regarded as the most important development since the War in the modernization of U. S. military forces, it is divided into Eastern, East Central and Western Wings, operating from bases at Langley Field, Va., Barksdale Field, La. and Hamilton Field, Calif. Under President Roosevelt's strong national defense program...
...Republican leaders had no idea who among them might succeed the dead Boss. He had never built up a No. 2 man. Vice Chairman of the State Central Committee is a woman, Miss Katherine Byrne of Putnam. Like the Republican Party almost everywhere, Connecticut's was for the moment as dead as the era that produced...
...Carleton Hotel, for dance music." What befuddled Commander Woodrooffe was trying to describe was the manner in which, at a single blink from the flagship Nelson, every ship in the review suddenly flashed out with myriad lines of lights which, at another signal, blacked out completely. A moment later at a third signal hundreds of searchlights swept the night firmament in amazing patterns...
Medicine has controlled their every moment ever since Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe delivered them. Their birthday party this week will be a strictly hygienic affair. They will wear special party dresses with embroidery and ribbons, but their parents Oliva & Elzire Dionne, their five older brothers and sisters who are to eat most of the birthday cake, will be obliged to wear white cotton hospital gowns over their everyday clothes. If any one of them has a cold or even looks ill, he will lose his invitation to the party...
Those who can recall what it felt like to fall off an aquaplane for the first time may also remember a twinge of loneliness at being abandoned, even briefly, in what may have seemed at the moment like a large waste of water. What would it feel like to fall off a ship in mid-Pacific? Few men have done such a thing, and fewer have lived to tell the tale, but many must have imagined themselves in such a terrifying predicament. With as much calm authority as though he had fallen overboard himself, Herbert Clyde Lewis tells just what...