Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Correspondents on their way to the front (see p. 58) also will submit to a double censorship: once in the field, again at the end of their special wire to London. To most newswriters it was clear last week that Britain's official press hierarchy, though changed in form, was little changed in substance, might prove no less muddleheaded than before...
...when it got where it was going. The scheme had worked perfectly on paper, but would it work? Lady Reading and her 300 aids in their old building on Tothill Street, Westminster, kept their fingers crossed and waited. By nightfall the last of the district leaders had reported by wire, and they knew. The children were received, no hitches, no accidents-CHILDREN HAD TEA AND GONE TO BED-CHILDREN FED, SCRUBBED, RETIRED...
...Italian dispatches described bulletproof metal vests, arm and leg armor and full-faced helmets worn by German soldiers sent out to cut wire...
...third week ended, the French reported severe German counterattacks on the Blies Valley salient to relieve French pressure on Zweibrücken. A mass of fast light German tanks was said to have been smashed up at the French wire by anti-tank fire, the wreckage of 20 of them blocking the passage of heavier German tanks. German counterattacks in the Bienwald east of Bitche were evidently more successful. At the northwest end of the line, the French advance from Perl in the direction of Trier progressed yard by yard. Then, this week, along the 80-mile Rhine front from...
Fortnight ago Universal Pictures hit on the idea of warming over All Quiet on the Western Front for the peace trade. The picture was still as fresh as a raw amputation. High lights of horror were still two severed hands clutching the barbed wire, Lew Ayres stabbing a poilu in a shell hole, then trying to save him. But its conscientious producers tried to improve the masterpiece. Improvement No. 1: instead of opening with the mute, reproachful faces of dead soldiers, trooping past in an endless file of ghosts until they vanish in the sky, they began it with...