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Rough water and a contrary wind upset the plans of the Harvard navy for time trials to be held last Saturday afternoon, in preparation for the seven crew contests which will be staged at the end of the week. With four days remaining before the University armada entrains for Philadelphia, to take part in the Harvard-Navy-Penn regatta on Saturday, it was undetermined last night which crew would represent the Crimson in the Jayvee event over the mile and a half distance...
...shareholders agreed to grant a few more months of grace. Immediately afterwards Royal Mail debenture holders voted to let this company borrow another $1,250,000 to provide working capital during their company's reconstitution. Walter Runciman has until next June to save Lord Kylsant's great Armada from foundering forever in the deep sea of liquidation...
...Netherlands and the Armada", Professor Merriman, Emerson...
...beheaded. Elizabeth wisely liked her pirates, Slaver Hawkins and Explorer Drake, and profited by their booty. When Spanish troop ships sailed toward England she shouted, "I have the heart and stomach of a king." She might have fought herself had not a storm and the English navy destroyed the Armada...
...Rodney's officers changed their cricket flannels quickly, motored 15 miles to Torbay where the Rodney, world's twin- largest battleship lay at anchor.? Dartmouth cadets, thinking of Drake and his officers who were called from playing bowls to fight the Spanish Armada, buzzed with questions...