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Word: raiding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which will fit over the babies' heads and shoulders and will be strapped on over their chests. Attached will be small air pumps through which mothers-in gas masks-can supply their young with filtered air. To get the babies accustomed to the new "toys," British ARP (Air Raid Precaution) officials suggest that mothers begin right now to "play peekaboo" with their infants through the helmets' mica windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peekaboo | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Moselle Department, along the German border, France planned to hold the biggest air-raid drill and preparedness test yet held. A "state of alert" for 36 hours was ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ides of March | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...death-dealers-heavier bombs, bigger Berthas, faster Heinkels. Most military pictures that cross from France and Britain represent life-savers-slicker gas masks, thicker walls, deeper holes. Last week, straight from a Hounslow, Middlesex, firm with the reassuring name of Concrete, Ltd., came some examples of British ARP (Air Raid Precautions) art which would gladden the heart of any wisely defensive ostrich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: ARP Art | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

BUDAPEST--Hungary today smashed its own Nazis in a nationwide raid and a few hours later formally joined Germany, Italy and Japan in the Anti-Comintern Pact...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

MacLeish, who with the adoption of a constitution yesterday resigned as Director of the Workshop and became merely a member of the Faculty committee, has written two plays for the Columbia Broadcasting System's radio theatre, "Fall of the City", and "Air Raid." He has expressed enthusiasm for the possibilities of radio drama but believes that techniques are extremely undeveloped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Committee to Sponsor Radio Workshop's Experiments | 2/24/1939 | See Source »

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