Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waves of "attacking" bombers swept over New England yesterday the whole system of civilian air raid spotters was thrown into action and the result of months of training and planning was put to a real test...
Possible air raid shelters have been located and each city block has been mapped out. Volunteer fire fighters are on call at all times and the efficiency of the organization was shown two weeks ago when 500 men turned up within 20 minutes at the large fire in Charlestown. Plans for mass evacuations from cities, one of the toughest problems in the defense pattern, and blackouts of large areas present a gigantic task for Dean Landis and his associates...
...Servis here is not of the Goodkind, and if you don't watch out, they'll Steele your Doe. The hand is Pfister. . . . I'm Weiss enough not to MacKinney rash statements about our lickin 'em Forte to nothin,' but put it on the Page that we'll raid the Big Red 7 to 6. Watch out below: Boston College 20 Clemson 13 Army 19 V.M.I. 0 Stanford 14 Oregon State 6 Colgate 6 Dartmouth 7 Columbia 6 Princeton 14 Fordham 20 No. Carolina 7 Notre Dame 14 Georgia Tech 0 Minnesota 28 Illinois 6 Yale 7 Penn...
...bombs, of course, were imaginary, but the whole incident was a test of the efficiency of Cambridge's air raid defense authorities, and partly also of Harvard's embryonic warden organization. The skies of Boston, clouded by yesterday afternoon's rain, were filled with United States air force planes in connection with the manoeuvers this week...
...hospital. Evelyn Nesbit, stage beauty over whom Harry K. Thaw murdered Stanford White in 1906, turned up in a newspaper ad plugging a face-lifting process. Plugging for fat removal in an ad in the same paper appeared oldtime Shimmy Queen Gilda Gray. Los Angeles police who made a raid on an elaborate, white-tie gambling joint discovered that it was the onetime home of Billy Sunday, the late devil-fighting evangelist...