Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sub-Debutante Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt, who will be 16 in February, Surrogate's Court allows $25,750 a year for personal expenses...
...Turkey in 1915, Swing covered the Dardanelles attack. Later, crossing the Sea of Marmora on a Turkish freighter, the Nagara, he made a legend for himself. The freighter was overhauled by a British submarine. A Nagara officer frantically signaled Swing to do the talking. "Who are you?" demanded the sub commander, meaning "what ship?" Said the excited American landlubber: "I am Raymond Swing, of the Chicago Daily News." Kipling used it in his story of British subs...
...draw up estimates for 65,000-ton leviathans. Even these would be 30,000 tons bigger than the biggest now in the U. S. fleet, 23,900 tons bigger than Great Britain's Hood (biggest afloat), and would be too bulky to get through the Panama Canal. Said Sub-Committeeman Charles Albert Plumley of Northfield, Vt., thumbing his Yankee nose at the British: "I'm sick and tired of just match, match. This matching game is absurd. I want a winning team...