Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems that Franco's aviators were bombing a loyalist munitions storehouse, and for several minutes the air was full of death-dealing missiles, which fell in large numbers all around the arsenal, but somehow or other failed either to hit their objective or even to explode when they crashed on the ground. When the zero hour was over, the loyalist troops rushed out to investigate and carefully opened all the "dud" explosives that had fallen. Inside each projectile were large quantities of sand, and in each was a polite note saying, "These bombs won't explode. Greetings to our dear...
Harvard may not be able to open a field for their exclusive use, but it can at least help educate the urchins of Allston in the paths of honesty. Brooks House, preferably, should investigate their school conditions and see if it isn't possible somehow to organize a play program for them...
...last time Henry Fonda appeared on the Broadway stage he was skippering an Erie Canal boat in The Farmer Takes a Wife. His sleepy-eyed, lethargic charm has since done him yeoman service in Hollywood but somehow seems a bit too somnolent now that he is back in Manhattan on his sailboat. Doris Dalton makes a pleasingly limber heroine...
...daringly accused Communist authorities of the Saratov region of covering up their own inefficiency with a campaign against "saboteurs and enemies." "What woebegone leader would not jump at such a convenient slogan to cover up his own inactivity and inability to work?" asked Newsman Suvinsky, in an editorial that somehow got by Izvestia's editors. "Spurred by thoughts of sabotage, the leaders developed a series of trials and demotions of dozens of collective farm chairmen, brigade chiefs and chairmen of village Soviets. . . . But it is clear to every one that the violent administrative rage that has swept leaders...
...Island, and astonished Eskimo cheers from both crews echoed through the rock-bound channel. That night captains of both vessels described from their anchorages to Canadian Broadcasting Co. and NBC audiences their historic meeting. Hopeful for the growing trade of the North were residents and sponsors of Churchill that somehow Northwest Passage II would bring business, help redeem millions of dollars sunk in Canada's most northerly port...