Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a decidedly "reminiscent" flavor to the "guest" contributions. Reunion dinners invariably induce a great deal of group sentimentality. This distinctive note is emphasized at the very outset by the undergraduate who designed the effective cover. (He is evidently close enough to graduation to feel premonitory twinges of graduate loyalty.) We can fairly see the Cambridge-longing in the mind of the solid citizen, who still must trail clouds of academic glory behind him, though his infant ignore the faithful geese, and cast the poppet upon the daisypied field...
That night Admiral Newton A. McCully, in command of the Black Fleet, sprang the first surprise. Some 1,000 or 1,500 marines in 50-foot motor boats carried by the Black Fleet traveled 17 miles from Porto Bello under cover of a smoke screen. Despite a very rough sea they effected a landing between 4 and 5am. A detachment of 400 attacked Fort Randolph and captured it from its defenders, who numbered 1 than half as many. Another detachment took the Coco Solo aviation field (defended by 70 mechanics) and submarine base, "destroying" submarine supplies and capturing all aeroplanes...
When morning came there were five first class battleships of the Blue Fleet in Cristobal Harbor at the north end of the Canal. Under cover of a smoke screen blowing in from the sea the Black Fleet advanced early to the attack. Admiral Robinson ordered destroyers and submarines to put to sea through the enemy's fire. Behind the breakwater the first line ships were manoeuvred in an attempt to get then into firing position. Only one or two were able to get broadside on to bring all their batteries into firing position. The great guns fired incessantly by proxy...
...Cheka." Trotsky's guards refused to open the gates; the men from the Cheka blew them up. Inside the grounds, however, they were confronted with barbed wire entanglements and a chain of concrete "pill boxes." Fire was opened, two Cheka men dropped dead; the remainder took cover; communications were cut. Meanwhile, one of Trotsky's soldiers had climbed the wall and summoned a detachment of the Red Army, upon whose approach the Chekaists fled back to Moscow. M. Dzerjinsky disavowed responsibility for the attempt, stating that the men were impostors-an explanation accepted by War Lord Trotsky...
...light year is the distance a ray of light, travelling at the rate of 186,000 miles a second, can cover in one year...