Word: eighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Naval officers sided with the Admiral. They still had tongues in cheek when Charles Edison finally had the Navy award prizes for the best U. S. mosquito and subchaser designs (TIME, April 10), later let contracts to U. S. manufacturers for four 110-to 174-foot chasers eight 59-to 81-foot mosquitoes. Last week the Navy's Brass Hats ate crow. They conceded that: 1) their civilian Secretary was right, and 2) they now had to turn to the British for the best mosquito boats...
Frederick Doell of the German Consulate climbed the subway steps into the chill, clear Brooklyn afternoon, trudged eight blocks to a quiet, dead-end street, turned off at the second house in a row of five brick-and-frame cottages...
...eight long years, since Japan first invaded Manchuria, the League of Nations was progressively more paralyzed and dumb," Browder said in discussing the League's expulsion of Soviet Russia...
...close scrap for top honors here will probably bring about lots of improvement in the division all year long. Competition of this sort, as is provided by many men in other classes who are not quite good enough to make the team, will be invaluable in moulding the eight first-line operatives into better wrestlers...
...Symon's privileges will be that of dining each year with the thirty-eight previous recipients of the prize at a gathering which includes the members of the Wendell family and the President of Harvard...