Word: armament
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Each copy of the Lampoon sold at the game today is to be securely enveloped in an oil-cloth cover, and no amount of the downpour common to such occasions will be able to penetrate its waterproof armament...
...petrel. He possibly got his vigorous way of speaking from President Roosevelt, whom he served as naval aide from 1907 to 1909. But earlier than that he had protested to Mr. Roosevelt (in 1902) because his superior officers would not listen to him as he cried: "The protection and armament of even our most recent battleships are glaringly inferior to those of our possible enemies. . . . One or more of our ships would suffer humiliating defeat at the hands of an equal number of ene-of the Torpedo-Boat Flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet. In 1916 he became Commander...
...demand made by the Little Entente for an inquiry into Hungarian armament was shelved...
...London, in answer to a question put in the British House of Commons by Commander Kenworthy, Liberal M. P., Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain stated that a new naval armament conference, to be called by President Coolidge, had been the subject of conversations with the retiring U. S. Ambassador, Frank B. Kellogg...
...Inquiry into the Council's rights to investigate the armaments of Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, with a view to transferring to the League the functions of the Interallied Control Mission, which now does its best to keep a watchful eye on the armament activities of these countries...