Word: bases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fair to add that a cricket ball may be very slightly heavier than a baseball, the rule specifying that it must weigh "not less than 5½ oz. nor more than 5¾," while a base ball must weigh "not less than 5 oz. nor more than 5¼." In circumference, the balls are the same. The utmost possible difference of ¼, to ½ oz. in weight should not, I am reasonably sure-, at any rate not 39 ft. affect and over. Probably, with a cricket ball, slightly heavier yet with no more atmosphere resistance, I might have thrown even...
...would establish an air base between Etah, Greenland (the expedition's intended boat base) and Cape Columbia, Grant Land (intended take-off for flights seeking the Pole and fabulous Crocker Land). Here gasoline, food, a radio-operator, smoke-bombs, an Eskimo and dog (for forced retreat), would be left...
...thing that the war has done is to give an impetus to the French aerial medical services. Numberless lives have been saved by the transference of wounded soldiers (most of the French troops in Morocco are natives) by airplane from the front line to the base hospitals in the rear...
...Their lordships were informed by Earl Stanhope, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, that the Singapore naval base would not be "a great base for concentration," but "comparatively a minor establishment." Lord Balfour (ex-Premier A. J. Balfour), one of the two elder British statesmen (the other is ex-Premier Lord Roseberry), rose to scoff politely at Labor and Liberal opposition to the base. Said...
...Incidentally, the remark also has been made during the debate that no fortifications are being built at strategic points along the 3,000 miles of the Canadian-American frontier, and this is used as an argument against the Singapore base...