Word: said
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since the report of Mayor Starzynski's death came from Berlin, he may have died at German hands, and been given the glory (so that Germany would not have the shame). Germans may even have wished him dead, and said he was-without basis...
...sharp-eyed survivor notwithstanding, there was considerable doubt at week's end that the attacker could have been the Admiral Scheer. Chief substantiating circumstance was the presence of an airplane. But a cruiser might have launched it. Fishiest point of all was the 25 shots she was said to have fired. One shot from the Admiral Scheer's secondary battery of 5.9-inch guns could have put a hole as big as a room in the Clement; and one from her 11-inchers a hole as big as a house...
...said Miss Duncan, she and a man named Douglas Miller were lunching together (Miss Duncan was traveling with her aunt) aboard the Norwegian freighter Ronda, standing up through the North Sea en route from Antwerp to Hoboken. Suddenly the ship "shuddered awfully." Glass tinkled, Miss Duncan remembered, and vases broke...
...precisely ten minutes of one," said Mr. Miller, eyeing his watch...
...Decks are awash, down we go in precisely two minutes," said Mr. Miller, eyeing his watch...