Word: battleship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that when the embattled Cimmerians or Parthians or Lydians saw the charge of this heavy brigade, with its respective ears flapping like the weekly wash on a windy Monday morning, lifting its trunks as does the baggage-smasher before he drops them to the concrete pavement, and heaving its battleship-gray sides for lack of breath like a boat in a stormy sea, they--the embattled Cimmerians, Lydians or Parthians--dropped their spears and bows, and departed, swiftly but not silently, in the direction of Cathay or some port further East, where the climate is good, and warriors may enjoy...
...less true now than it was a hundred years ago that our first line of defence is the Navy. It is more true. The elaboration of modern war has made the machine the essential element of defence. A battleship is the most stupendous kind of a war machine. The contest between England, the greatest sea-power, and Germany, the greatest land-power, has proved to the world that a navy which may command the seas avails more than millions of men fighting in the trenches, or hundreds of millions of treasure...
...officer competent to take his place in the complicated organization of a battleship must be an intensively trained man. It has been said that the average line officer of the Navy must know all that the officer of corresponding grade in the army knows, plus his own specialized technical knowledge. That is a statement not far wrong. The modern sea-fighter is a "soldier and sailor...
...Harvard men are desirous of doing their utmost part in the defence of the country. No greater need, and no greater occasion, may arise. Such training involves slight sacrifice. On the contrary, it will give each man keen and intensely interesting knowledge of that great beast of war, the battleship of the first fleet...
...plan of having weekly drills in the manipulation of a man-of-war (beginning next Monday), should appeal to a great many men. There is nothing more fascinating or intense in the whole vivid game of war than the life of a great battleship. The drill offered does not take a large amount of time, but should be concentrated enough to offer a good basis of training in the necessities of a naval officer's education...