Word: monitored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unprecedented in scale. It covers the whole Mediterranean Sea, and spills out on to the lands around the sea. It has already lasted eight months and shows no signs of abating. In it are engaged vessels ranging from unwieldy monitor to the swiftest aircraft. By it may be decided fates of nations, by it entire areas of human philosophy may be affected. It tests, perhaps finally, the fundamental power of Britain...
...know nothing of the North American Fisheries and less about international law, but I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll give you the fishes' point of view." He did, and his blue book was so funny that the professor gave him a passing grade. --Christian Science Monitor...
...check of the newspaper dispatches reveals that Mr. Ingersoll exaggerates wildly.. But of course they have been severely censored. Yet there is the recent statement of Mr. Mallory Browne of the Christian Science Monitor, who was in London at the time and has since returned to the United States, that on September 8 "1 personally rode around a large part of central London in a car and experienced no difficulty whatever in getting through. I made free use of the telephone without any difficulty, and heard of no one who had any such trouble . . . there was not even...
Enter R. N. As the British land forces, stung by bitter winds and flying sand, burrowed into the wadi for the night, the Royal Navy began its part. In towards the shore slipped the monitor Terror, with her the river gunboats Ladybird* and Aphis. At extreme range the Terror's big 15-inchers opened up, started chewing at the cliffs where Italian batteries were dug in. Steadily the little flotilla moved closer, bringing smaller guns into action. Within two hours the main line of the battle fleet had moved into position and started pumping shells in a whistling stream...
Within the past year, FCC monitors have caught over 300 unlicensed stations. Although in the course of tracking down renegade operators FCC's monitor men meet espionage, sabotage and other subversive carryings-on, the only law the monitors can enforce (with the cooperation of local police) is the Communications Act. Incidental findings are turned over to FBI or to the Army or Navy Intelligence. Taciturn about their activities, the ether police talk for publication only about their wild-goose chases, most of which are started by hams, an extremely vigilant and patriotic...