Word: underground
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...limelight lover after 17 years underground, Witness Krivitsky was still able to smile sardonically for cameramen after five hours of testimony, called it the worst ordeal of his life...
Masters of ersatz, Germans devised detours, pretenses, camouflages. They built underground factories; used commercial planes to develop military design; laid out airfields planted in alfalfa, made hangars like barns, dressed greaseballs like hayseeds. Thousands of young Germans joined Deutsche Lujtsport Verband (German Air Sports Society) and proceeded to fly their sports planes up & down Germany in tight military formations. Meanwhile civilians took to gliding and soaring...
...about Berlin at dawn was to find occasional patrols of Nazi police angrily scrubbing off walls anti-Nazi slogans or posters stuck on during the blackout by the still active underground movement. Presumably the Comintern in Moscow has the names and addresses of the thousands of Communists who, up to the Pact, were determinedly working to overthrow Naziism and betting on war as their best chance. Whether they had quit, or whether they had been turned in by their Moscow bosses, was not apparent. No large numbers of Communists were reported by correspondents to have been seen leaving concentration camps...
Discovery of a new type of underground earthquake wave, vitally affecting seismological theories and problems of building reinforcement, was reported today by Dr. L. Don Leet, Director of the University Seismograph Stations...
...play a considerable part in proposed uses of the seismograph in army artillery observation, for the location of heavy enemy guns, and also for computation by a gun crew of their accuracy of fire. Both the discharge of a cannon and the explosion of a shell set up vibrations underground which can be traced by earthquake instruments...