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...other. Fernandez Ubarri was hit, for he was seen to fall twice; nevertheless he crawled up to the church wall. Half a minute later both charges went off with a sharp crack, tearing the two volunteers limb from limb. This was immediately followed by a dull, heavy roar as one wall of the church collapsed inward in a tornado of dust and pulverized masonry, bringing the roof partly down. Some of the defenders were miraculously unhurt, but all those living were captured...
...each stateroom were piled 750 Ib. of tinder-dry oak logs and scrap kindling, representing the combustible material in an average stateroom. Located inside and outside each room were electric thermocouples connected with dials in a recording room. In each stateroom the experts started a fire, let it roar. In each case the inside heat reached 1,700°. This made the half-inch steel plates of the Nantasket turn red-hot and buckle. Glass doors cracked but held. Some of the panels under test bulged and transmitted intense heat to the outside. Others resisted it so well that...
...afternoon of May 31, 1889, a 16-year-old boy named Victor Heiser left his family home in Johnstown, Pa. to move two horses from the stable. He never returned. As he released the horses he heard a "dreadful roar . . . punctuated with a succession of tremendous crashes." He climbed to the top of the building. He saw his parents waving to him from a window, just before a wall of water and de-bris-"a dark mass in which seethed houses, freight cars, trees and animals"- struck the house, crushed it like an eggshell. With a self-possession unmatched...
...week's 1,500-metre final the greatest ever run. The field lined up without Wooderson, who had been put out in a preliminary heat. Hitler reached his box just before the gun sounded for the start. While the murmur of the crowd gathered into a huge expectant roar, the field of twelve runners finished the first three laps with Ny leading, Cunningham second, Lovelock third. Then, still a good 300 metres from the finish, Lovelock began his amazing sprint. It carried him, a tiny light-footed figure in loose, black shirt and shorts, past the leaders and down...
High over Berkane, border town in French Morocco, sounded the mighty roar of airplane motors last week. A flight of huge bombing planes was boring west toward the Spanish border. Suddenly engines choked, sputtered for lack of gasoline. One plane dropped into the sea. Another smashed up on landing, killing the pilot, two members of the crew and seriously injuring another. A third got down safely, but with empty tanks...