Word: shell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...branding Maury Maverick a Communist, a C. I. 0.-lover, an irresponsible rabble rouser. A third candidate, 29-year-old Leroy Jeffers, entered the race shouting that beneath Maury Maverick's white shirt was a Red undershirt. That let Maury go into his War dance about his Argonne shell wound, crying, "That undershirt was red [with Maverick blood] so that little boys like Leroy Jeffers could be protected...
Next day, while Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose went elephant riding in London Zoo back home, Their Majesties watched one of the remaining escort, the cruiser Southampton, in an anti-aircraft demonstration, peppering a black smoke shell cloud with hits that puffed white against it. Another day, and on the second anniversary of Their Majesties' coronation, the cruisers fired a 21-gun salute, and George issued the welcome order to "splice the main brace" (extra grog for all hands). Three hundred and fifty miles off Cape Race, 1,350 miles from Quebec, the Empress' experienced crew...
...Count Bethlen suddenly resigned as Premier when a financial collapse compelled him to give up revisionism as the price of a French loan. Since then he has played a background role in opposition politics, occasionally coming out of his shell to issue warnings against getting too cozy with the Nazis or to growl about the decadence of his own aristocratic class. Hopeless and outmoded as most of the surviving diplomatic bigwigs of the '205, the crusty Count is convinced that his country is going to pot: "It is much to be feared that Bolshevistic ideology will again strike root...
Facing Coxy Larner, in the stern of the shell, pacesetter and virtual sparkplug for the boat, is Vince Bailey who is stroking the 150's for the second year. In the course of time Vince has acquired considerable self-confidence and has the strength and the ability to row his own race provided he has even as much as a third of a length lead, and what's more he proved the efficacy of his confidence in the race last Saturday when he performed this very feat. He is only a junior, which speaks well for his own ability...
...Greenwood-Yates are that fuselages, wings, other parts, can be woven by unskilled workmen over molds; that construction is cheaper, faster, every bit as sturdy as any other kind; that a woven airplane is less likely to be bashed up by hits from machine-gun bullets, anti-aircraft shell fragments. Aircraft experts predict the average life of an airplane in war service will be only 30 hours, so Greenwood-Yates backers think that bigger Geodetics with larger engines may have a military future. Meanwhile, with a single-engined plane that sells at $1.900, a two-motored...