Word: balboa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onetime Chief of (Army) Engineers; of apoplexy; at Balboa, Canal Zone, where he had gone as chairman of the Interoceanic Canal Board to consider enlarging the Panama Canal (which he helped build) or building a new canal through Nicaragua...
...Balboa lay the Blue defensive squadron under Vice Admiral Arthur Lee Willard aboard the Arkansas, only battleship in the line. To him had been assigned seven light cruisers, 22 destroyers, the giant aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga, a flock of submarines, the dirigible Los Angeles (used for the first time by international consent in war games). To drive the Black fleet back from a 1,000-mile jungle-fringed coast line Admiral Willard relied chiefly on a force of 225 battle planes...
...sentimental monography Woodstock, An Essay (1923) Poet Richard Le Gallienne describes Brown as a second Balboa, misquotes Keats: "[Brown] stood looking down on Woodstock...
...Representative William Robert Wood of Indiana, 69-year-old chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, held his breath and dithered with excitement while a Negro diver went over the side of a boat from which Mr. Wood was trolling off Balboa, C. Z. The diver disentangled from the propeller Mr. Wood's fishline, at the end of which was a 10-ft., 127-lb. sail fish, which Mr. Wood then landed...
...Balboa, Rear Admiral Edward Hale Campbell ordered all parrots belonging to sailors in his squadron to be quarantined. Seventy-four sailors thereupon set their parrots free...