Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tons of new British ships brought into service. Convoys for British shipping were now organized in the Seven Seas. Across the Atlantic a series of radio patrols two hours apart was substituted for transoceanic convoys. S. S. Cameronia arrived "going from lamp post to lamp post" as her commander put...
...having confirmed the news that the Soviet forces were marching into Poland by sighting a Soviet tank through field glasses, General Sosnokowski ordered the remnants of his Army (3,000 men) to disperse hastily into small groups. Then the General, his aide and two sergeants threw away their uniforms, put on the oldest clothes they could find and started out to meet the advancing Soviet Army. The Soviet patrols merely looked upon them as humble peasants. Once they hopped a ride in a Soviet Army truck, but mostly they walked. After 13 days of sleeping by day in the woods...
...With latest photographic and engraving equipment and brand-new unit tubular twin-12 presses, it was capable of printing the News in color throughout. Trucks were ready to deliver it daily and Sunday to every home in Muskingum County. And thorough Earl Jones was prepared to spend money to put it over...
Last week the old hulk was raised from its grave, renamed Scribner's Commentator, and put to sea again. It kept the Scribner's format virtually unchanged. Editor and general manager of Scribner's Commentator is Francis Rufus Bellamy, onetime executive editor of The New Yorker...
After a late and humdrum start, the new season at last unrolled its red carpet and put on a white tie last week. On three successive nights celebrities and sophisticates flocked to welcome their favorite comedy-writing team, their favorite musicomedy-writing team, one of their two favorite actresses...