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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps because they have no precision bombsight to compare with the new U. S. sight, which makes U. S. aviators boast they can drop a bomb in a barrel from 18,000 feet, Germans have emphasized dive bombing which is accurate, but vulnerable to anti-aircraft machine gunning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: 72-Hour War? | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Brazil aboard the British freighter Browning (minus their Captain Mestre, who apparently went down with the ship). "Schultze" said that, after sinking the Royal Sceptre, he set out to intercept the Browning because "I wanted to tell the Browning to take the course of the Royal Sceptre. The Browning sighted us, and to my surprise the crew manned the boats in a panic. Before I could even draw closer to give my peaceful message, all the passengers and crew of the Browning had left the ship. I now had to make it clear to those terrified people that they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Heroes & Heroics | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Hampshire and Dartmouth 28-40-57, whipped Holy Cross 21-39, and felled Yale 20-36, Princeton 25-30 to capture the triangular on dual principles 30-40-52. If the boys looked fairly good at the beginning of the season, they were certainly putting up a pretty sight...

Author: By Paul I. Carp, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

...coming competition is the last chance for Sophomores to compete for both Boards; accordingly, the editors of the CRIMSON issue a cordial invitation to any men who thrill to the sight of a big press churning out newsprint, to those who might grow to love the smell of printer's ink, to come to 14 Plympton Street tomorrow evening and see what's what

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson to Open Last '42 News and Business Competition Tomorrow | 10/3/1939 | See Source »

...Scaramouche, The Prisoner of Zenda, Mare Nostrum. His name was linked so closely with Sabatini, Ibanez, Rudolph Valentino, Ramon Novarro that it was sometimes uncertain whether he was director, author, actor, or all three. After a ten-year career in Hollywood, Rex Ingram, then only 35, dropped out of sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Romantic's Return | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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