Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moored aircraft tender, blazing under repeated attacks, downed a Japanese plane on her own decks. Simultaneously her captain spotted a midget submarine's shadow within yards of his vessel. Hits were immediately scored and, as the sub's conning tower emerged, a destroyer administered the coup de gráce with depth charges. The tender then shot down a second plane. Motor launches from a vessel laid up for overhaul braved a steady hail of bullets and shrapnel, rescued scores of victims from the oil-fired harbor. Almost without exception officers and men exhibited quick thinking, coolness, coordination...
...Japanese, said Frank Knox, lost two of their little-known, tiny two-man submarines (one sunk, one captured), one full-sized sub and 41 aircraft, including those shot down and those forced down for lack of fuel...
Coach Clark Hodder's Yardling sextet scored early and often last night to notch its second straight victory, subduing a sub-par Mt. St. Charles Academy aggregation, 5 to 1, at Providence. Periods of only ten minutes running time greatly handicapped the Crimson, and the Hoddermen, despite the case with which they won, never really warmed to their task...
Other bills were in the race. The House Judiciary Committee and a Senate Labor sub-committee both were grooming entries this week. There were almost as many ideas for legislation, mild and harsh-mostly harsh-as there were Congressmen...
Inflation is a more popular topic than deflation nowadays, but Mr. Kemler's deflationary remarks are particularly valuable for their timeliness. His "Deflation of American Ideals" is sub-titled "An Ethical Guide for New Dealers," and is aimed at contemporary progressives...