Word: armors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...battleship. Airplane bombs can damage ships in two ways: by direct hits or by bursting in the water alongside. At heights where there is reasonable immunity from anti-aircraft fire, direct hits are hard to obtain; and at lesser heights, bombs are not able to pierce modern deck armor. Explosions alongside are not seriously dangerous to ships with modern con- struction. Accounts of tests and their results were given in detail...
...bulkheads, etc. Second, shells fired contain reduced charges of explosives, because they are mainly intended to pierce and not to explode. Third, results of the shooting are carefully recorded and this requires time, especially when the stricken ship has to be visited in order that the effect of armor-piercing shells can be accurately ascertained...
...pair of boots for Jack Sheppard," "A sword for the Red Knight," "A suit of armor for Sir Florian." Thus spoke honest burghers in London printshops on Saturday nights. They laid down their pennies, took home boots, sword, armor, cut them from their cards, pasted them on the effigies of contemporary actors. They took pains. Often the scenes constructed in the three-sided rooms of the toy theatres were works of subtle art. Artists afterwards famed sometimes got bread by engraving the penny cards, the tuppeny cards-Blake, Flaxman, Cruikshank. Thousands worked at the making of the theatres; now only...
...suit of armor for Sir Florian...
...Construction of six river gunboats (for use in China) prior to July 1, 1927. Cost each (exclusive of armor and armament...