Panama Ship Plot Ends With Explosive Escape Attempt
Major Benning fights to stop a dynamite laden freighter's plan to blow through Gatun Locks. After seizing a radio operator, he triggers a warning and escapes with aide Grimes. The ship is halted at Cristobal and detonations rip through the jungle as the doomed vessel explodes.
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Schmolz
Benning
Bravet
Bravot
Hravot
Tampico
Vera Cruz
Coast Artillery
Naval
Denal
Limon Bay
Panama
Denning
Joe Smidt
Smidt
Ben- Ring
Gatun Locks
New York
Panama Canal
Behning
G-2
Schmalz
Henning
Smith
Tndia
Senmolz
Grimes
Sentcles
Mindi
Sierra Quebranda
Bening
Marlin
Gatua Lake
Ask Me Another A General Quiz
A reader supplied quiz item listing several general knowledge questions. Items include definitions of solecism the use of sound to silence, ship’s lee side, and the measurement bar see. It also asks about the Spanish conqueror of Mexico, a poem linked to a hero on a burning deck, consanguineous marriages, yucca stalk growth, and piano pieces played with a single hammer strike.
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Mexico
Answers in a Puzzle From a Cracked Page
The text snippets cover errors in astronomy notes about measuring spaces between stars and wind directions, claims of producing two sounds that cancel to silence, a list including Cortez and Egypt, consanguineous marriages defined, Yucca Bower stalks in California growing 7 to 11 inches in 74 hours, and Pisano works for one hand including Zichy and Ravel.
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Cortez
G. Casablenca
Egypt
California
Zichy
Ravel
TIP Ss to Gardeners
Gardeners shift from maximizing yield to better quality vegetables by harvesting at half grown for tenderness. Frequent plantings every two to three weeks sustain a steady supply, while saving seeds is declining as cross pollination reduces seed quality and uniformity.
Captured Officers Pay Rules Under Geneva Convention
Under the 1929 Geneva convention, officers captured in war have their salaries paid by the detaining power as prisoners. Each officer receives pay equal to officers of his rank in the host country, but not exceeding his rank pay in his own country. In short, prisoners may not receive higher pay due to captivity.
Quotations on Nature and Law from 19th Century Thinkers
A clipped pairing of remarks on nature and law contrasts idealized sentiment with distrust of lofty abstractions. Deslaudes notes excess in sublimity blending with ridicule while Beether likens laws and institutions to clocks needing periodic cleansing and rewinding with time.
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Henry Ward Beether
Sin of Omission and Fear in Quotations
A compact reflection contrasts Marcus Aurelius on omission with Vergil on selfish fear. The two quotes explore moral consequence where inaction harms others and personal fear collapses when faced with another's ruin.
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Marcus Aurelius
Vergil
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United States
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San
Brad
Mexia
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Scholz
Smidh
Himmel
Schmor
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Schmelz
Sanet
Deslaudes
Dai A RL
Salt Lake City
Ue West
Buffet Ars
Watirs
Manoplis
Holman Waters and
Sutton
Reumor
Tacitus
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