Word: repelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that in 1915 a gunner submitted a device for plotting the course of attacking aircraft to increase the accuracy of antiaircraft fire. In 1918 he was finally permitted to demonstrate, and his gadget performed so effectively for altitudes up to 16,000 feet that it was adopted forthwith, helped repel the last big German air raid...
...week Dr. Ernest Gladstone Richardson, new Methodist Bishop of New Jersey, appointed new pastors to 35 of the 37 "vacant" M. P. pulpits. He pronounced the experience "most trying." For on Sunday the 37 diehards, backed by their bristling flocks, took their stand for Methodist Protestantism, made ready to repel invaders. This they accomplished peacefully, however. In most of the churches, new pastors courteously claimed the pulpits, were courteously refused, departed quietly-or even remained to hear a diehard's sermon...
Last week the old-line generals of Spain showed signs of banding together once again to repel an invader of their ancient rights and privileges. Fortnight ago General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, little "tsar" of Andalusia, and General Juan Yagüe, commander of the Moroccan Army Corps, were dismissed from their posts, presumably because of too ardent opposition to the Fascist notions of the youthful, fiery Ramón Serrano Suñer, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Minister of the Interior and, next to the Generalissimo, Spain's most powerful figure. Last week the list...
...their London intellectual set. When she writes about the way sunlight falls across a room, about the mannerisms of the minor characters who drift in & out of the plotless, amorphous story, Dorothy Richardson is both eloquent and clear. But writing about Miriam's tormented relations with men, who repel and fascinate her, she is so obscure that the reader is left guessing. In the four volumes of Pilgrimage sex never once rears its ugly little head. Every critical experience in Miriam's life occurs off stage, between books...
...editorial staff of the Memphis Press-Scimitar was recalled to its office to get out an extra edition on the bombing of Chicago, St. Louis, the threatened bombing of Memphis. A brave Californian telephoned Oakland police that he was prepared to go East and repel the invader. In Providence frightened townsfolk demanded that the electric company black out the city to save it from the enemy. Pious Virginians telephoned the Richmond Times-Dispatch that they were praying...