Word: embarking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Juniors and a limited number of Sophomores in the Naval R. O. T. C. will embark from the Boston Navy Yard on the destroyer Manley June 20 for the annual training cruise in company with the ships of the Yale and Georgia Tech units. The unit will stop over at New London for the boat race June 22, proceed to southern waters for ship handling and target practice exercise and return to Boston July...
...wife. By stupid luck he muddles out of his despair to remain the same conceited show-off to the end. Good shot: ¶Ma & Pa Fisher after the wedding reading Aubrey's travel folders on Waikiki Beach, the Taj Mahal and the Riviera while the honeymooners embark on the night boat to Albany...
...recognizing the great problem which now confronts America along with the rest of the world, and the full implications of which no thinking man can avoid facing. This problem, of course, is--and to state it sounds almost like a truism--whether we are to embrace economic nationalism, or embark on a policy of vigorous internationalism with all that that implies, or merely to continue drifting. Wallace himself is in favor of a policy of internationalism, but he admits that it is extremely likely that it could succeed. We will then, he says, be forced into economic nationalism...
Pennsylvania has completed electrification of its four track line from New York through Philadelphia to Wilmington (118 mi.). From Public Works Administration it borrowed $77,000,000 to carry the job on to Washington (another 108 mi.) and to embark on the greatest equipment-buying spree in the history of railroading. General William Wallace Atterbury, Pennsylvania's up-from-Yale-and-the-tracks president, last week estimated that the whole project would provide two years' work for at least 25,000 men. "The Standard Railroad of the World" will build 7,000 steel box cars at a cost...
...difficulty in adjusting her good intentions to her Iowa temperament caused sorrowing St. Gandhi to embark on a hunger strike seven months ago. Nilla repented and for five months slept on a bed of bricks in penance. Two months ago she erupted once more, turned up wild-eyed and dusty at the home of an astonished Hindu in Muttra only to disappear again...