Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouserless (see cut), try to stem the attack with antiquated 1917 Lewis machine guns. Both cameras show the crew running to emergency posts at the start of the raid, both film the tattered, bloody sailors leaving the ship, peer into the gaping holes in the Panay's armor, sweep over decks strewn with wreckage. Movietone's nine-minute release concentrates on the hardship of the survivors' overland escape to safety. Universal's 23-minute three-reeler also gives shots of sacked and burning Nanking...
...Hannes Schneider, is to western skiing what Dartmouth is to eastern skiing. When Dick Durrance. generally recognized as the best skier in the U. S., sprained his ankle making a practice run last week. Coach Prager was apprehensive. But his other five skiers went on to make a clean sweep of the meet. Dartmouth took the first five places in the cross-country race, and the first four places in both the downhill and the slalom events. Dartmouth's skiers, under Skimeister Prager, remained as invincible as they ever were under Skimeister Schniebs...
...Sinkiang!" With his Hindenburg Line cracked, and with Japanese launching 200 armed flat boats on Lake Tai to shoot up and disorganize lakeside villages, Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek faced at his capital Nanking last week the virtual certainty that Japanese armies would soon sweep around south of Lake Tai, descend on him even if he could keep them from also sweeping around north of the lake and up the Yangtze River. Some 70 Japanese river gunboats were already pounding away at the Chinese boom of sunken junks which was flung across the Yangtze to block it weeks...
...without lots of road-paving. His problem was one of producing a team of average talent but perfectly drilled being able to outsmart a team of "naturals". And so the Crimson eleven has rehearsed its plays until they are executed with Roxy precision, whether it be on an end sweep, linebuck, or pass. The only scores upon which they can safely rely are those hammered out behind smart play execution...
...that throw 1 Ib. high explosive shells two miles. Cartridges come in clips of five, one in each clip painted with phosphorus to burn as a tracer. Beside them are two .30 calibre guns and on each side of the centre fuselage two .50 calibre (1½ in.) guns sweep the skies from the rear...