Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this: the aeroplanes are the eyes of an army or navy, making it possible to discern movements of the enemy and to direct artillery fire. One man in the air is worth 100 on the ground. I believe that 100 aeroplanes would be sufficient for reasonable coast patrol and that 1000 would provide defense against any hostile fleet of aeroplanes. Yet 10,000 aeroplanes would cost less than 10 battleships...
...nurses. They will continue the work of the first Unit which was sent to Europe last June at the request of Sir William Ostler, of Oxford, England, and which has just completed a three months' tour of duty at a British Base Hospital near Boulogne on the French coast...
...University Museum of Comparative Zoology is to receive a gift of the collection of birds which has been made during a scientific cruise along the North African coast, in charge of Henry Russell Amory '14. The scientific work of the expedition started at Teneriffe, and through the documents issued by the State Department the efforts of the scientists were greatly facilitated. On the island of Lazeroti numerous birds were taken. Here the craft was caught in a gale which sent her into Agadir, Morocco, where the captain of a French battleship, the Du Chayla, had a revenue cutter...
...Medical School, will arrive at Falmouth, England, within a week, and before being assigned to work by the British War Office will travel through Scotland and England. This unit is expected to resume the work of the first unit in a British base hospital on the French coast near Boulogne, though it will go wherever the need is most urgent, provided it is not divided...
...Christmas necess, except for men living within a few hundred miles of Cambridge, is the only holiday period of sufficient length to permit in any degree such a gathering of fresh energy. And it is not long enough, especially for western men. For students who live on the coast, to take the extreme case, ten days must be spent in transit; and this makes a journey home out of the question. Even for men who live in the Mississippi Valley the trip can only be the briefest. And the one or two extra days allowed by the Office...