Word: drakes
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Chile is the nearest country to the Antarctic. According to Government reasoning, the area claimed was a logical extension of Chile proper and of its Andes Mountains, which disappear in Drake Strait, reappear in the Antarctic. What Chile hoped to gain from the new colony was less explainable. Though deposits of minerals, principally coal, have been reported in the frozen Antarctic mountains, none of commercially profitable quality has ever been found. As a control point on the southern seaway between the Atlantic and Pacific, as a possible refueling base for a South America-Australia air route, the Antarctic presented only...
Ervin Thayer Drake III '44 of Matthews Hall and Chatham, New Jersey, was elected Freshman soccer captain following Wednesday's 1 to 1 tie with Andover...
...learn any language but their own, which in peacetime is simple bigotry, but in war becomes a kind of national virtue. The British were last week more sure than ever that the favorite vessel of the Axis, the airplane, was not necessarily superior to the proud conveyance of Drake, Nelson, Jellicoe. They were sure that Britain could not be brought to her knees until her Fleet was put out of action. And they were also sure that Adolf Hitler, who was mighty sick the first time he ever went to sea, and Benito Mussolini, who looks his most imposing pitching...
...critics, cheered loudly by audiences was Clare Boothe's anti-Nazi comedy Margin for Error, which opened a fortnight ago. Most popular of the musicals was Shepherd's Pie, which after ten months was still turning customers away. Included in the show is a pageant involving Elizabeth, Drake, and a handful of courtiers. Says Elizabeth at the end of the show's first half: "This is our message for all time. . . . The sea is ours, our friends to share it. our enemies to shun it, our men to man it." While lights fade into a cyclorama...
...version of their story will recall, are valiant English captains who, while Queen Elizabeth haggles over the cost of building a navy to face the Spanish Armada, wage an undeclared war on Spanish shipping wherever they find it. In history, deadliest of the sea hawks was Sir Francis Drake. In the picture, he is symbolized by Captain Geoffrey Thorpe. Sea Hawk Thorpe begins his career by a swashbuckling attack on a Spanish man-o'-war, carrying King Philip's ambassador (Claude Rains) and his proud niece (Brenda Marshall). To appease Queen Bess (Flora Robson) for this shocking violation...