Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week police searched the labyrinthine cellars of the Houses of Parliament for spies, even poked through the ventilating system and set a patrol on the roof. At 2 p.m. workmen and staff employes were sent home, and soon afterward certain brawny nobles staged a regular Rugger scrum for the...
By now Achilles and Exeter were deployed and sheering in. Spee. had to train both big turrets on Exeter, and just keep the others off with 5.93. The engagement settled down to a running dogfight. Tactic of the Britons, directed from the Exeter by Commodore Henry H. Harwood, Commander of...
All the way in they fought, ten and one-half hours more. Within full sight of the headland called Punta del Este, where Uruguayans gathered in crowds as if to watch a pelota match, Ajax and Achilles craftily slipped around Spee inshore of her, leaving the enemy silhouetted in the...
Late one afternoon a squadron of British bombers left their North Sea bases and flew toward the German coast. Near Helgo land Bight they sighted, through a thin mist, a German battleship, a cruiser, sev eral destroyers, a submarine. The sub marine opened fire, then submerged. A few minutes later...
Diplomatic Front. Still woefully weak in both man power and material, the Finns left nothing undone to get aid. To keep their U. S. reputation as good debtors (which privately they consider highly amusing) they paid the $234,693 installment on their loan. Tickled pink by the League of Nations...