Word: armors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Films made at the TutankhAmen tomb were shown to the trustees, but will not yet be given to the public. Another film showed the practical uses of mediaeval armor...
...Winnipeg, one Stanley Carlson equipped himself with a cowhide suit covered with spikes an inch long, announced his intention of departing soon for Port Arthur to slay wolves by clouting them on the head with an axe while they nibble at his armor...
Navy Department. Secretary Denby urged the need of $30,000,000 for modernizing the fleet, the building of eight 10,000-ton cruisers, three cruising submarines, $7,676,000 for naval bases and a five year building program for the naval air force. The modernization program includes heavier deck armor for aeroplane defense, blisters for hulls as protection from torpedoes and bombs, and the much disputed proposal to increase the elevation of naval guns...
...domain of his instincts, he is hardly known at all." That, in parvo, was Fabre's technique- "personal interviews" with his minute subjects. The Languedoeian scorpion (not the common black scorpion of Europe, which is harmless) is a grotesque, straw-colored beast, 3½ inches long, with bony armor and a hard, sharp, poison-tipped tail. Only a Fabre could be intimate with him. He digs his own home in the sand under rocks. He feels his way with his pincers, because, despite his eight staring eyes, he cannot see straight ahead. His courtship is an epic, ending...
...protection is in our fraternity. Our armor is our faith. The tie that binds more firmly year by year is the ever increasing acquaintances and comradeship, and the compact is not of perishable parchment but of fair and honorable dealing which, God grant, shall continue for all time...