Word: decks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eight o'clock to write a letter to his wife. Most of the crew of 328 and the 36 officers were already asleep. He finished his letter and was sealing it when a great explosion shook the ship and she immediately began to list. The Captain rushed to the deck and amid the confusion issued orders to post sentries to repel boarders. There were no boarders, but the forward magazines had exploded and the Maine quickly sank in the waters of the harbor, carrying with her 262 men and two officers...
...Chinamen grew suspicious. Not five but all 20 came on deck, armed with hatchets, knives, clubs. The crew waited with shot guns and revolvers. They fired. The Chinese rushed them. Melee. Confusion...
...Washington Navy Yard, President Harding, members of the Cabinet and prominent naval officers inspected the Langley, the navy's sole aircraft carrier. The party was transported in the great airplane elevators from one deck to the other, and the President inspected with much interest the " fiddle strings" landing gear used to halt the airplanes when alighting on the upper deck. As a result of his visit, Mr. Harding is said to be more strongly than ever in favor of converting some of the navy's battle cruisers into aircraft carriers...
...following examinations are scheduled for today and tomorrow in the College and Engineering School. TODAY Anthropology 15hf. Emerson D Chemistry 4 Baxter-Rubinwitch Sever 5 Rudofsky-Wood Sever 6 Chemistry 34 Emerson D Economics 11 Server 11 English 19 Emerson D English 48 Deck-Kent Emerson A Kern-Yang Emerson F English 50 Allen-Jones Sever 17 Kennedy-Wyzanski Sever 18 French 5 Emerson J French 14 Sever 6 Geology 10 Foxcroft Geology 11 Foxcroft German H Sever 6 Government 6 Sever 29 History A hf. Emerson D Indic Philol. 1b Widener B Indic Philol. 9 Sever 5 Mathematics...
...those who have just returned from expeditions to Australia and South America in search of specimens. Such travel has its compensations. There is considerable distinction in being on terms of familiarity with a live cassowary, to say nothing of a wallaroo. These men derive great satisfaction from pacing the deck with the paw of a wallaby tucked under one arm, and a cortege consisting of a duck-billed platypus, a green opossum and wombats trailing in the rear. One ship brought a huge tortoise, the last of his race, giant lizards, penguins and cormorants that had forgotten...