Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further protection by having ten or twelve-foot standards supporting heavy chain-net ten foot above the floor, similar chain-net as used by battleships as a protection from submarine torpedoes. When the leaves were put down, nothing would be in sight, all mechanism being underground. When vessels were sent through the Canal, the leaves could be raised in less than five minutes. Mechanical operation could be electrical with remote control. In fact, the leaves of the bascule-type bridge could be so camouflaged and with an imitation lock close by that I doubt very much whether the real lock...
...upon . . . solemn compacts . . . that civilization rests. England would be forever contemptible if it should sit by. ... I have therefore asked you to come to tell you that this morning we sent an ultimatum to Germany. . . . There will...
...like him only in that both are deeply religious, an extremely tall, gaunt, bony-faced man, with a sensitive mouth and a talent for gentleness, the Rt. Hon. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax. The end came on Sunday morning, September 3 when Kennedy sent a triple priority cable to Secretary Hull reporting that the British had moved up their ultimatum deadline to Hitler one hour. There would...
John Kennedy, 21, second son of President Roosevelt's alert Ambassador Joe, was shot by his sire from London up to Glasgow last week to help interview survivors of the sunken S. S. Athenia. He was authorized to say that the U. S. steamer Orizaba was being sent over to fetch the Athenians home. The neutral yacht Stella Polaris was also being sought from Raymond-Whitcomb Travel Service (world tours...
...voice snapped: "Two years ago the whole Pacific Fleet was sent out for one woman flier [Amelia Earhart...