Word: timed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offensive that an official French communique described as "an attack supported by artillery fire." French outposts were slowly driven back toward the Maginot Line. From the rear came reinforcements and a counterattack and at the end of the day the German infantry had been stopped, at least for the time. But they had pushed back about a mile and a quarter into the no-man's-land between the Maginot Line and the Westwall...
...with regrets, that "His Majesty's Ship Royal Oak has been sunk, it is believed by U-boat action." Royal Oak* was a battleship of 29,150 tons, built in 1914, and her loss reduced from 15 to 14 the number of Britain's capital ships. The time and place of the sinking were not officially divulged, but it appeared to have happened between midnight and dawn...
...confused with the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, which the Germans claim to have "destroyed" (TIME, Oct. 9) and which the British say is safe...
...crew 'Heil Hitlered' except me, and sang psalms. . . . Eventually we realized we were sailing north. The captain said we were near Iceland, and later disclosed that he was warned just in time that between Iceland and Britain one British ship was watching every ten miles...
Prevented by time and the Versailles Treaty from building a great Navy, Germany realized that to rise and fight again she must count on an air force for its long-range striking force. The two men most directly concerned with building the Air Force were one all the world has heard of, Hermann Göring, and one very few have heard of, Erhard Milch. Though he has kept closest surveillance over the Air Force, Göring has in recent months taken over many outside duties, and the real propeller of the force is now Erhard Milch, Inspector-General...