Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later took out a patent. Though the British adopted a similar device during the War, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels twice turned down the Fiske invention. In 1921 Rear-Admiral Fiske, retired, saw a photograph of a U. S. Navy plane dropping a torpedo. Said he: "It was clear to me that the Government had deliberately taken my patent...
...could produce an immediate effect on American opinion if we made clear, as we might have done long ago, that we have abandoned our naval bases in the Caribbean. In policy we have long recognized that the United States has a paramount interest there and it is time we demonstrated clearly that our strategy recognizes that fact...
...miles from New London, Conn., to Gibson Island, Md. Twoscore other yachts sailed out of New London in a dripping fog the day after the Harvard-Yale crew race. During that thick night the Teragram missed the stern of Malabar VIII by a scant six feet. Then came clear weather, smooth sailing. Sachem and Nina, the first two yachts around Montauk Point, got the best wind after the turn. The Nina came in seven hours behind the Sachem, at night, but the Sachem had started at scratch because of her slight beam and because she carried no propeller. The Nina...
Since the sound cinema vogue, hundreds of clear-voiced "legitimate" actors have hustled to Hollywood to get rich. With them has hustled Actors' Equity Association, potent labor union which controls the nation's legitimate theatre. But Equity has discovered a mighty objection to its regulations. Opulent Hollywood thinks it knows of its own business better than Equity does...
...message arrived at once. Meanwhile Secretary Sergio Montt, of the Chilean Embassy, was furiously decoding a cable received in his office from the Vatican. Hurrying to the palace he presented it to the Archbishop. It was Pope Pius XI's sanction of the plan of settlement, in clear, definite terms. A few hours later two statements were issued, one by President Fortes Gil, one by Archbishop Ruiz y Flores, confirming the report that churches would reopen and Roman Catholic Mexico again be baptized, married and buried with the sanction of Holy Church. The church-going Mexican populace which...