Word: dreadnought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...super-dreadnought, a light cruiser and an aircraft carrier were despatched from Malta to Palestine. Other ships awaited orders...
...Evidently the Rev. Dr. Malcolm James Mc-Leod, pastor of the Collegiate Reformed Church of St. Nicholas, in New York, had not seen the circular. In his Thanksgiving sermon he criticized Hoover for going south on a dreadnought. Said he: "A Quaker on a battleship looks like a cannon in a parlor...
...create interesting problems of comparative values. The Harvard Business School, for instance, is the monetary equivalent of one half a light cruiser, or one quarter of a dreadnought. The monetary value of the whole University, which has taken 300 years to build and which has produced such leaders of thought and action as Emerson and Roosevelt, is less than that of sever warships of the third class, which may never fire a shot against an enemy, and which will be scrapped as obsolete within fifteen years...
...Christabel is the Editor of Britannia and a joint founder with her mother of the British Women's Party. Mrs. Pankhurst remains active as Honorary Treasurer of the Women's Social and Political Union. Estelle is perhaps the most violent and versatile of the three. She edits The Workers' Dreadnought and Germinal. She has "hunger struck" 14 times, and always had to be forcibly fed. She has founded: 1) Clinics, cost-price restaurants and co-operative toy-factories for War veterans; 2) Societies to expose Fascismo, give information about Russia, and promote feminine culture...
...guns of the dreadnought Duilio were booming and belching smoke, fire and steel. In the turret, a boom and a belch sounded above the rest: a 305-millimetre* gun had blown up: 7 were killed, 30 wounded. The ship immediately caught fire. The magazines were flooded as a precautionary measure but the fire was extinguished before irreparable damage was caused. The accident was due to a backfire into an imperfectly closed breach...