Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plan before the people, to be voted on November 7 as an amendment to the State Constitution. To put it on the ballot, he needed 10% of the voters in the State. He got them: 241,288 valid signatures. By the same process he added a second proposed amendment which would relax the present law so that the process of amending the constitution would not be so laborious in the future...
...sounded like a set recitation: "The British ships could not be seen distinctly, but one could determine the location by dimmed lanterns at the anchoring buoys. Repulse was partly covered by Royal Oak. Nevertheless her two forward turrets protruded. So I first aimed in their direction, then sent a second torpedo into the very heart of Royal Oak, then another, and another. I saw distinctly how water first spurted high before Repulse and then was followed by high red flames...
Fiercely, repeatedly the British denied their Repulse was hit. Seaman Vincent Marchant, who managed to get overside from Royal Oak and swim ashore through the tons of oil which cloyed and dragged down others, tended to corroborate Prien's 30-second version as against the Admiralty's 2O-minute one. Marchant's story seemed to refute Prien's belief that he hit Repulse. Marchant told of four hits on Royal Oak. After the first explosion, he just had time to get from his hammock to the deck. Then followed the second, third and fourth blasts. Evidently...
...Europe's propaganda* war the Germans have, as might have been expected, come out second best. They often handle the art of communication clumsily. In War II, when they have not been caught stupidly lying-as when they insisted the Ark Royal had been sunk, even though a U. S. naval attache lunched aboard her and found differently-they have artlessly suppressed information which would on the whole have done their cause good rather than harm. Last week Germany had yet to admit the loss of even one submarine in seven weeks' warfare...
...which alone counted; and whatever Field Marshal Goring himself might feel, he was merely the loyal and submissive servant of his master. Moreover, he had come down definitely on the side of Peace a year before and it may have been difficult for him to adopt this course a second time. He invited me, however, to come and see him that (Aug. 30) afternoon...