Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the University Crew squad reported at Newell Boathouse yesterday afternoon. Coach Stevens dropped a bomb into their midst. Calling his men around him he read off a revised list of his first three crews, which leaves only two men on his first crew in the positions in which they have been rowing...
...Bombing Accuracy: A bomb dropped from 12,000 feet requires 28 seconds to fall, during which time a 21-knot ship travels almost 1,000 feet. Because of weight limitation, airplane sights are inaccurate; and yet an error of one-half degree will place the bomb 100 feet out in a 12,000-foot fall. So a zigzagging ship would be hard...
...incompleted Washington, really just a hull of modern construction, was tested last fall. The tests were made by exploding bombs, simulating the largest bombs dropped by airplanes and the largest submarine torpedoes, in the water around her, to determine the resistance of her hull to external explosions. The result was to flood some of her "outboard explosion spaces" and "double bottom spaces"; her inner hull was not ruptured and the few leaks that were started could easily have been plugged up, or the water pumped out. At no time did she list more than five degrees. No material damage...
...Scilly Isles, a flight of airplanes soared into the air from their seagoing carriers. For several miles they whirred their way through the morning stillness to a spot where H. M. S. Monarch bobbed like a bottle on the rippling swell. As each machine passed over, a large, fat bomb was dropped; for the Monarch was to be sunk in accordance with the terms of the Washington Arms Treaty...
...environment is in the public which reads it. It goes without saying that the quality of a newspaper represents the quality of its readers. A great newspaper has often been known to scream in the headlines and grow purple in its editorials about an oil scandal, a Wall Street bomb, a colossal trust or other heinous calumnies. A fortnight ago, the New York Evening Bulletin, moron's caviar, indulged in journalistic bathos...