Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realistic peek at Armageddon, described the extensive preparations being made for air attacks on London, expected to be a main objective of enemy bombers. Trenches to provide shelter for 1,500,000 people will be dug in London's parks, declared Sir Samuel, and a ring of hospital tents set up outside the city. Oxford and Cambridge universities will be turned into clearing stations for casualties. Some 30,000,000 sandbags, ready to be filled, have been stacked away in warehouses and 275,000,000 more are in production. Railways operating out of London have worked out a plan...
Before 45,000 cheering Sudetens in the market square, bespectacled, 40-year-old Führer Henlein, onetime gymnasium instructor whose figure is now assuming Göring-like proportions, mounted a black-draped podium and addressed the coffins, covered with red flags bearing the SdP insignia of the Sudetendeutsch Partei. "Fatal bullets struck you, even though you were innocent," he cried. "May your sacrifice be a guiding sign for us." Throaty shouts of "Seig Heil" punctuated the speech of Henlein's stooge, Deputy Karl Hermann Frank, as he defiantly used words from the forbidden Nazi Horst Wessel hymn...
...week cub reporter on a Buffalo newspaper when he decided to become a novelist. But first, said Homer, "to the purpose of preparing myself for that career," he would keep a journal. "The Great American Novel-" is the journal-a satire that starts off by tagging after Ring Lardner, turns off on an oily road marked Irony-&-Pity, skids into caricature, and comes to a happy halt as the June choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club-as did Author Davis' first novel, The Anointed, a bare ten months...
...standard of amateur boxing as well. By dividing all the fighters who had the desire and the necessary 25? to become amateur boxers into two classes (sub-novice and open), the Daily News Athletic Association did away with the common practice of matching tough but inexperienced youngsters with ring-wise opponents according to the luck of the draw. Today, almost every city in the U. S. has its Golden Gloves tournament, which stretches over a six-week period from the first neighborhood preliminaries to the city finals...
What gave Dr. Heiser's article a further ominous ring was the expressed theory that the wide extension of airplane travel could bring about a renewed spread of yellow fever. His suggestions for prevention of a new epidemic: 1) consultation with health authorities in the construction of transport airplanes, to eliminate possible hiding places for the carrier or its larvae, and 2) utilization by airplane passengers of inoculation facilities...