Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hollywood in making a raid on the ivory tower for its writing talent with officials of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer appealing to Harvard to name its best writers in the Senior clean and offering two of them $50 a week apprentice contracts, according to reports received here...
Such, for this typical middle-class English family, was the morning after the air raid. The town was Southampton, the story fictitious. But Ordeal makes the air raid and the days that follow as natural as death. The raid had come about midnight-without warning, without sound of planes. The Corbett house was not hit. Only the windows were missing, letting a cold March rain sough in over the rugs and furniture. "What's it all about, anyway?" asked Corbett. "I dunno," said Neighbor Littlejohn...
...construction of the airship R100, sailed with her on the first trip to Canada. In 1931 he formed an airplane company, saw it grown to 1,000 employes when he resigned last April. Ordeal to the contrary, Author Shute declares he is no alarmist. Average casualty rate in air raids, he says, is one per bomb; the rate of death is one to three casualties; hence three bombs are needed to kill one civilian. Thus, Ordeal's typical air raid wounds only about 67,000, kills little more than...
Barcelona's defense demonstrated that with intelligent air raid precautions, a whole day's series of five raids need not kill more than five people. But apparently nothing in the world can make the Chinese people defend themselves intelligently. Last week 18 Japanese planes flew three times over Ichang, Yangtze trading centre between Hankow and Chungking. Bombs damaged two American mission compounds clearly identified with U. S. flags and clearly marked on maps given the Japanese last June. U. S. Consul General in Hankow Paul R. Josselyn lodged a sharp protest which the Japanese did not immediately answer...
...find Einstein unintelligible or Freud shocking. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, served in France and Mesopotamia during the War, was twice wounded, became a captain. He said he enjoyed shooting Germans. Nowadays he is known as an authority on poison gas, is an Air Raid Precautions expert...