Word: runge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fair and public trial in April, with Russian lawyers assigned to their defense. Meanwhile, panic seized U. S. engineers in Russia who had no embassies at all to defend them. From Moscow a General Electric official telephoned Berlin that he was "unable to hold the men." Hardly had he rung off before 17 U. S. engineers arrived in Berlin. Said...
...middle-aged couple, straining up the social ladder, get their fingernails on the top rung-then slip...
...walked aft along the starboard catwalk through the wardroom to the galley. A turn to the right and he was stepping perilously above the Akron's cavernous plane hangar where hung a spidery little plane on a flat hook atop the centre of its wing, threaded through the bottom rung of a metal trapeze. The plane's propeller was already turning...
...passageway which cuts through a 9-ft. steel cylinder, a turn of which can shut it off. Outer wall below the street is 8½ ft. of steel and concrete. Throughout the building upstairs are secret alarms, turned on by gentle knee or elbow pressure. These are sometimes rung in error, sending 100 ex-Marine guards to the spot on the run with guns ready. Deputy Governor W. Randolph Burgess rang a false alarm by mistake the first day he arrived. Communication is maintained with Governors Island, 15 min. away, where ten companies of infantry are stationed. Enough food...
...last Schmeling four was rounds fresher in were the last round, the fastest of a sharp but not particularly dramatic match. When the bell ended it. he ran lightly to his corner. Sharkey followed him. When Schmeling sat down on his stool, Sharkey placed one foot on the lowest rung and leaned down to talk. What he talked about was not revealed but his gesture was so nonchalant that it was seized upon afterwards as a significant item for the furious arguments that followed the fight. Four out of the last five heavyweight championship fights have had acrimonious aftermaths...