Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...absence of Bollay, Howard W. Emmons, instructor in Mechanical Engineering, will take over the responsibility of the flying courses as well as the wind tunnel in the aeronautical laboratory...
...Gates, forced down near Courtrai, burned his bullet-riddled plane under his captors' noses; later escaped by jumping from a prison-train window in a German tunnel. Living on nothing but some crackers and a can of bully beef, he made his way 50 miles in four torturing days and nights to within exactly three paces of the Swiss border, where he was recaptured. But the Armistice came three days later...
...Miss It. In Boston, a motorist followed a stranger's directions, wound up driving in a subway tunnel...
...devices ranging from kettledrums to sheets of steel. Latitude Zero has a few new ones. When man-eating trees run amok in the script, the soundmen drag a real tree into the studio, grapple with it to give the proper effect. If the script calls for voices in a tunnel, the cast joins the soundmen in building one of chairs, tables, blankets, etc. In order to make a character, reduced in size by a magic ring, sound tiny, a 50-ft. length of garden hose was rigged up through which an actor's voice was piped into a button...
Outside the ward, the fugitives jumped a second guard and a trusty, hustled them, into a sub-basement and locked them up. Through a tunnel used for steam pipes and electric cables they fled, unlocking two doors with keys which they had long since prepared. The tunnel opened on the side of a railroad embankment, down which they slid and ran along the tracks. In Water Street they were spotted by two cops. They fired, killing Patrolman James Fagan. Patrolman William Nelson fired back, drilling Convict James Waters through the heart. The other two, Joseph Riordan and Charles McGale, pelted...