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Word: armadas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed raid on Zeebrugge failed to rivet up the Bruges Canal, but it showed the world something and left Britain proud. When the diplomats have failed and the smoke gets thick, something happens to the blood of English men of action. Crecy, Blenheim, Waterloo, the Armada, Cape Trafalgar, Jutland have shown that it is not equipment but spirit which wins battles for Britain. It did not matter, therefore, that when King George VI, who personally owns more ships than anyone else in the world,* went out into the fog and drizzle in Weymouth Bay last week, what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Weymouth Bay | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Meanwhile Britain is organizing to meet the air threat. Her air armada-pursuit planes, fast Handley Page Hampden bombers-is rapidly being increased as her manufacturing program begins to hit a good stride. The Royal Air Force is equal in morale to the German, its older pilots have had longer training. The British Army's mechanized units (tanks, armored cars), although too few for war strength, are the most advanced in the world. And its officers-neither scholars like the French nor technicians like the Germans-are excellent leaders of men, if only rule-of-thumb strategists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: War Machines | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...only racing in home waters over the weekend by any member of Harvard's famed rowing armada was by the Lowell House eight, which was defeated by the Dartmouth Freshman boat over a mile and five sixteenths course Friday afternoon on the Charles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Crew Defeated | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Sever plays the part of Mr. Puff, a playwright; Palmer Baker '39 and Vernon Hodges '34 are cast as Mr. Sneer and Mr. Dangle, critics who accompany Puff to the dress rehearsal of his Elizabethan verse tragedy called "The Spanish Armada." Miss Spencer is Tilburina, the English heroine of the play under rehearsal, and John Barnard '39 is her faithful Spanish lover, Don Whiskerandes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THESPIANS WILL GIVE "CRITIC" BY SHERIDAN | 12/8/1938 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--Senate opponents of President Roosevelt's super-navy program today charged the Chief Executive with embarking on a secret and dangerous foreign policy to be supported by the most powerful armada afloat, and demanded that Congress and the people be allowed to pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 4/22/1938 | See Source »

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