Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...German, who had to turn and use her port batteries when the starboard ones were evidently disabled. But the German kept on running, being a raider, not supposed to stand and fight. She had much more foot than the Carnarvon Castle's 17 knots and so, behind smoke screens, she escaped; but not before she showed signs of settling somewhat at the stern...
Editor Hall's independence is his success. In 1910 Grover went to work as an editorialist on the Advertiser, started his career there by defending Alice Roosevelt Longworth's right to smoke cigarets. Editor of the Advertiser since 1926, Grover Hall won a Pulitzer Prize in 1928 for rousing attacks on racial and religious intolerance...
Ordinary pungent incense smoke, said they, kills many kinds of nose and throat germs. Next best disinfectant is smoldering cardboard, damped with a two percent solution of potassium nitrate and dried...
...scouts out, too. They knew that the swift, massive Renown was racing up from the British convoy. They turned off toward Sardinia, and the British resumed their pursuit of the Italian cruisers. When the Renown came up, the Italian battleships were well away toward shore. In all the smoke and scurry, the Renown could not see the effect of her shells at extreme range...
...left in commission), surrounded by numerous cruisers and destroyers, were at sea 75 miles northeast of the advance British cruiser force, which immediately turned that way to give battle. After two hours' steaming they sighted four Italian cruisers and closed in, firing. The Italians turned tail, belching smoke. After a half-hour's chase, the British cruisers sighted the Italian battleships, one of the Cavour and one of the Littorio class, which opened with their biggest guns (12.6-in. and 15-in.). With heavy metal flying around them, the British now turned off, inviting pursuit by the speedy...