Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white-robed royal obstetrician produced a fine, pink 7 Ib. Prince. Not a Crown Prince, for Their Majesties already had a three-year-old-son, slim little Baudoin who embarrassed his parents while the King was being sworn in by slipping off his big arm chair and climbing into Queen Astrid's lap (TIME, March...
...Strong of Arm: **** is our strong right foot, particularly in soccer. Her healthy red-cheeks make us all envious...
...bearded men have wings, but Admiral Reeves wears above his bright garden of decorations the insignia of a naval aviation observer. During the War, when he was convoying on the battleship Maine (for which he got the Navy Cross), Admiral Reeves first interested himself in the air arm. In 1919 he was sent to Rome as naval attache. There he went up in one of the dirigibles General Nobile designed for the Italian Government. Back home he was assigned to the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, went to Pensacola to learn flying. As a captain he won his wings...
...Admiral Reeves moves up, succeeds to the post of Commander-in-Chief. But Admiral Reeves's appointment does demonstrate the new cohesion between the Navy's air force and its sea fleet. During the Hoover Administration naval aviation was constantly being thrust forward as a unique fighting arm by ambitious, energetic David Sinton Ingalls, just as military aviation was being spotlighted by F. Trubee Davison. President Roosevelt abolished these young zealots' jobs as assistant secretaries for air in the two departments. Today a Navy airman is first of all a sailor, though the Army flyer still thinks...
John Crockett, big, rawboned Senate clerk, was standing down in front of the Vice President's desk. In unparliamentary fashion he tugged the arm of the presiding officer, whispered hoarsely...