Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disclose that Solomon gave to his friend, the Queen of Sheba, an airship which her son, Menyelek, flew. Without the hobby-horse of Colonel Lockwood Marsh, Secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society, the world might still honor Leonarda da Vinci as the first designer of air craft...
...prove that all spiritualism is the work of human hands does not impair the goose-fleshy qualities of Bleeker Hall. The fact that the audience is on the stage from the start, that there is none of the uncomfortable five minutes usually spent in backing and filling until the craft gets under weigh, is evidence enough of "Listening In's" skillful workmanship...
...fighting craft must be supported by what are known in naval parlance as auxiliary craft. These include scouts, transports, colliers, oil tankers, ammunition ships, aircraft carriers and various other craft with specialized equipment. A certain number of these vessels have been specially constructed for naval purposes and are useless for anything else. They belong to the regular navy just as much as do battleships and other armored fighting craft...
...second place a man may enter this School knowing that he will find on its Faculty a competent body of Scholars. In this department of the University, as in all others, there are men teaching who are known the world over as masters of their craft. If men are drawn to professional schools in no small measure by the attraction of certain particular teachers, the Theological School in Harvard concedes nothing to any other such--School in the country...
...represented one of the most satisfactory direct answers' to the submarine which had been developed by the war. Had it not been that the war ended before enough destroyers could be spared from convoy duty to assist, with their greater speed and offensive power, hunting groups of these tiny craft, it is certain that they would soon have become a still more important factor in destroying submarines and in interfering with their operations...