Word: warning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a slightly better than even break from the weather, an excellent meet should result, for the track is in first rate condition. If it should turn up cold, however, the times will be very disappointing, for the coaches will warn the squads against running at full speed...
...Milch. General Milch was at Karinhall last weekend, and so was Chief of Staff General Hans Jeschonnek. They had a machine that might destroy a large segment of Western civilization. They may have discussed trying to do so, because this week the German Embassy in Washington took pains to warn that if Britain and France endangered civilians with more active warfare (see p.30) Germany would "retaliate blow for blow." It was respect for Hermann Göring's mighty machine that caused the New York Times with unconscious humor to headline...
First of all, the tune originated at the Savoy in New York where it was used as a run-off lick--that meaning the phrase used to warn customers that the particular set of tunes is over and to warn the band to come back on the stand. Hawkins took the thing, patterned it after some of the old Lunceford originals and recorded it for Bluebird...
Pappy Billy. Cordell Hull, a Tennessean by birth, bone, breeding and background, comes from Middle Tennessee, but the whole State takes pride in him. Nevertheless, around Star Point, where he was born, the saying is that "Cord Hull is the knowin'est man in the world-but he warn't never a match for his pappy." Pappy Billy Hull was indeed pretty much in a class by himself...
This activity all along the earth's restless quake zone, and Istanbul Observatory's announcement that the Turkish epicentre was 16 miles underground, led earthquake experts to warn that there would probably be further shocks, perhaps for as long as six months. There are many faults under Turkey, and seismologists predicted it would take some time for a new subterranean balance to be achieved...