Word: ran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foulest blow of this new Nazi in-fighting landed under the belly of the 8,3O9-ton Dutch liner Simon Bolivar, carrying 170 crew and 230 passengers for Paramaribo, Surinam. Coasting at midday about 16 miles off Harwich, England, through a calm, sunny sea, she ran into two mines which tore out her bottom, killed her captain and about 100 others, injured 200. Most of the passengers were German-Jewish refugees, scores of them children...
Partial object of mining in or near an enemy's channels is to fill them with wreckage that will menace other ships. Last week on the British east coast, three small British ships ran fatally afoul of the sunken Canada...
Forebears. It was not always that way. Wilhelmina's forebears were a tough collection of fighting men. While they were still nominally under Spanish rule and before the British ran them off the sea (1654), they conquered an Empire in America and Asia in the same military manner as did the British and French. As late as 100 years ago Wilhelmina's grandfather, William II, fought a brief war to try to regain Belgium. The unification of the 29 German States into one big neighboring empire headed by Prussia made the practical Dutch finally realize that a nation...
...ran a dispatch on the front page of the New York Herald Tribune one day last week. Had it been datelined London or Paris, most propaganda-wise readers would have passed it by with an indulgent smile. But it was datelined Berlin, signed by 27-year-old Seymour Beach Conger, newly appointed chief of the Herald Tribune's Berlin bureau. It .had slipped easily through German censorship, which concentrates on suppressing "undesirable" writers, not undesirable words...
...Anatomist Eleanor Linton Clark of the University of Pennsylvania accidentally ran a glass tube, fine as a hair, into her finger. A few days later, when her finger swelled, her husband & colleague, Anatomist Eliot Round Clark, probed out the sliver of glass. To their amazement, the Clarks saw tiny blood vessels sprouting inside the tube. Because they were scientists, that gave them an idea. They got three rabbits, slit the delicate skin of their ears over a dime-sized area, sandwiched the ears between oval glass windows, long as an egg. Then, because they were scientists, they proceeded to annoy...