Word: shamming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following morning New Yorkers' ears were filled again with war's sky sounds as the squadron, now augmented to 143 planes, returned for a sham battle. At 1,000 ft. flew the attack and torpedo planes, ever and again diving earthward with a crescendo of open motors. Next above roared the heavy bombers. Scouting craft thundered along at 3,000 ft. High above in the bluish haze flashed tiny fighters. From New Jersey came the huge Los Angeles and a procession of small blimps...
...have taken a novel step toward resuming athletic relations and amicable feelings toward each other in their respective alma maters. Elsewhere in today's issue an account of the baseball game between the Harvard Lampoon and the Princeton Tiger is given, and though, to be sure, this was a sham ball game and no score was kept, still the match may perhaps give an opening for peace conferences between the two universities...
...sham battle in Illinois the candidates shunted every principal issue the people wanted to hear about. The Prohibition issue is not a question of what to drink or what not to drink, but it is whether the individual in the U. S. shall be a free citizen. It is an issue from which I shall let no candidate ? man or woman ? escape...
...this as in most other sham encounters of the Navy, the real loser was the U. S. Treasury. Washington officials were not surprised when John A. Park, Editor of the Raleigh (N. C.) Daily Times, who "covered" the Caribbean war game for the Associated Press, wired...
Alfred Paul Friedrich von Tirpitz was born in Kustrin, Prussia, in 1849. At the age of 16 he became a cadet in the so-called Royal Prussian Navy, which then consisted of a handful of sham frigates.* In 1897, by steady regular promotion he had become German Naval Secretary and an intimate friend of the Kaiser. In 1900 his "von" was registered in the Almanach de Gotha. In 1911 he was appointed Grand Admiral, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. All this time, with the Kaiser's enthusiastic approval he was turning British sea lords livid by building...