Word: torpedos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will have around 21 points to Princeton's 28 going into the 440. In this event, Ulen will probably withdraw Rick, saving him to bolster Harvard's already favored 400-yard relay team, thus virtually guaranteeing his men the seven final points which, added to whatever Ed Hewitt and Torpedo Van Vort can collect in the 171/2 lap grind, will place the Crimson in the admirable position of having scored the most in points first
...Three torpedo blasts in one day last week sent down 30,998 tons of British shipping, which is more than the tonnage of the biggest U. S. merchantman afloat.† These shots were particularly happy ones for Germany, for the three ships sunk were the laden oil tankers British Triumph and Gretafield, both off Britain's northeast coast, and the refrigerator ship Sultan Star in the Bay of Biscay, fetching home 6,000 tons of Argentine beef. For Great Britain, however, these sinkings had grim recompense: the two U-boats responsible were soon sunk, arguing reckless desperation by Nazi...
Scarcely more than a year ago Superman was just a comic-strip nobody from an obscure planet called Krypton. Now, as almost every kid in the U. S. (and many a grownup) well knows, Superman is THE man to have around in a 1940 pinch. He can outswim a torpedo, outfly an airplane, outdistance a streamliner train, outrun a speeding automobile, punch his way through armor plate. Also he can get down to brass tacks as Clark Kent, reporter, write superscoops for his paper...
...ships claimed as "sunk" by Nazi pilots are only damaged. They limp into port with their wounded groaning under sea-drenched blankets. Of eight ships claimed by Nazis in one day last week, the British admitted the actual loss of only two, one of them shattered by a torpedo launched from...
...presence of Swede Broberg two flights above the pool cut both crowd and interest at the meet to a minimum. Ed Hewitt's win over up and coming Dave "Torpedo" Van Vort in the quarter provided the evening's best race...