Word: arming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...economies. Said he: "The establishment of a separate air force independent of the Army cannot be justified on any ground whatever. Whether it be an air, corps under the War Department, apart from the Army, a separate air force under a new executive department, or a third co-ordinate arm in a Department of National Defense, the idea behind all is the same and is equally fallacious in every case...
There sits His Majesty on a carpeted dais. Over his head a monstrous curtain is furled with droops of golden cable. His crown rests beside him; a sceptre leans in the crook of his arm; a sword is propped against his leg; the royal coat of arms, painted on the wall, has the look of an automobile trademark. And in the stiffness of the paper-doll body under its innumerable ribbons, sashes, badges and magnificent sweep of falling draperies-in the exaggerated dandyism of the spindling white-stockinged legs, in the pointed hands, in the dainty bearded face, burns...
Once, with the Marquis of Queensbury and Lord de Clifford as judges, before a crowd that had torn down the side doors of the Royal Aquarium to get a look at him, Sandow met Samson. Samson began by bending an iron bar over arms, calf and neck. Sandow copied him. Next Samson burst a wire cable wound around his chest. Sandow burst its fellow. Samson snapped a chain on the muscles of his arm. The chain was too small for Sandow. He called for his big dumbbell. The greatest moment of his life had come...
...single pigskin sailed over a goal-bar anywhere in the U. S. Not a single fullback sent a pigskin away for a punt of even 20 feet, and no back of any other denomination gained so much as a yard with a pigskin in the crook of his arm. This and that, to be sure, was done with footballs, but footballs are not made of pigskin. They are made of cowhide? a startling fact made public in the advance notices for a congress of leather producers which will meet in Chicago next month. But although deluded about the material...
...home run. Pressed against the right field fence he saw it over his shoulder and reached up. Pittsburgh players declared that it was impossible-a spectator must have caught it and tossed it down to Rice-but Umpire Rigler shook the noise out of his ears and waved his arm. Score: Washington 4, Pittsburgh...