Word: peerless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demonstrations was the Napoleonic Wars, in which Britain's peerless fleet was matched against Napoleon's peerless Grand Army. Napoleon conquered a continent and kept British commerce away from it for six terrible years. But in the end, strangled economically herself by the British sea blockade and finally knocked in the head by Wellington and the Allies, France went broke and got beaten...
...After last week's air-raid tests German officials could boast that it takes 4,000,000 Berliners just one minute to clear the streets and scurry into air-raid shelters. A year ago the record was two minutes. Germany claims to have a peerless Air Force. But there is no sure defense against air raids and if Germany starts bombing London the one thing that might worry Berlin is a retaliatory raid. When the first "raid" occurred last week thousands of Berliners were hurrying home from work. Red flares, black flags, and roped-off streets indicated places that...
...captain of the first U. S. polo team (that lost to England in 1886), Tommy Jr., at 39-and after a quarter-century of competitive polo-proved last week that he is still the best polo player in the world. Spectators, gasping at his fearless riding, peerless tactics, magnificent driving and accurate shotmaking, realized why he has been ranked at 10 goals (theoretically a perfect player) for 17 years-greatest feat in the annals of polo...
...legal compulsion, but a moral responsibility has Harvard to share her peerless facilities for dispensing knowledge with the general public. University Hall, realizing this, has boldly ventured into the field of adult education with such projects as the public distribution of the American History Reading List and the broadcast of significant faculty lectures...
...Manhattan café society's clown, Elsa Maxwell. Irked, the N. Y. Daily News's World's Fair-conscious "Nancy Randolph" (real name: Frances Kilkenny) wrote: ". . . To-day this column intends to whack Grover Whalen hard for letting the rival San Francisco Exposition grab that peerless partygiver and fun-maker, Elsa Maxwell. Of course, Grover Whalen has Mrs. Astor . . . but she doesn't like publicity...