Word: chief
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that the first excitement is over, the results of the Zeebrugge-Ostend raid may be more carefully estimated. Clearly there were material gains; part of the Zeebrugge mole was destroyed and the channel at Ostend blocked up, but the chief advantages of the raid were moral. It will probably not take the Germans long to repair the damage, but they will now have to face a reawakened spirit in the British Navy that bodes no good for them. For a long time Zeebrugge and Ostend seem to have held the British in the spell of inaction; they have been regarded...
Captain James P. Parker '96, U. S. N., commander of the Cadet School of the First Naval District, has been detached from his position as head of the Ensign School and is now military chief of the First Naval District. In this new capacity Captain Parker will have charge of the military personnel of this division of the Navy, serving as one of the four aides of Admiral Wood, commandant of the First Naval District. Captain Parker was placed in command of the Ensign School by the Navy Department last June, when it was situated at the Massachusetts Institute...
...Faxon, class president, and J. A. Sessions, secretary-treasurer, will make short speeches, and J. M. Mitchell, chairman of the 1921 Liberty Loan Committee, will discuss the third bond issue. The chief feature of the evening's entertainment will be the moving picture film, "Headin' South," featuring Douglas Fairbanks, and a comic reel...
...hoping for it, and I know only too well that perhaps I am not worthy of it anyway. My chief concern now is to get abroad, and when I get there to do my damnedest to avenge my brother's death. I won't stand for anything less than the complete conquering of the devils who let this hell on earth loose. Whatever my part is to be I intend that it shall at least be one that is felt by some German or Germans, and I have gritted my teeth to see this thing through and hang on like...
Being the instigator and chief promoter of this insidious attempt to divert the columns of the CRIMSON to a meaningless and purposeless discussion of education, I suppose it is now my office to make some sort of apology for its brief and miserable life...