Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some time the belief that submarines are able to stay submerged only so long as they maintain active forward motion with motors running. And yet . . . you state that the "usual maneuver is to sit on bottom, motors off." By this do you mean that such submarines are stuck fast in the mud of the bottom or that submersion with motors off is possible regardless of the circumstances...
Scapa Flow is considered one of the world's most defensible war anchorages. Its 120 square miles of deep water are accessible only by four narrow inlets. In the last war Hoy Sound on the northwest was used only by beef boats (and occasionally by Beatty's fast battle cruisers) until the Hampshire (with Lord Kitchener aboard) was sunk by a German mine outside it. Then it was closed by mines, as it doubtless is again this time. Hoxa Sound on the south is the deepest and widest approach. Here are a "boom" and submarine net barrier...
...sense of what a "cavalryman"' mounted on his mechanical steed experiences during a charge, Correspondents Webb Miller (U. P.) and Harold Denny (New York Times) rode together in one of the B. E. F.'s fast, small tanks. Mr. Miller got a banged leg, Mr. Denny a sense of awe and seaksickness as they joggled cross-country on rubber-padded perches within their little juggernaut...
...basis of past performances Burwell, the smooth-running, tireless Junior, is number one man. But Tuttle and Clark are not far behind; Tuttle, kept out of track last year by illness, has been coming ahead fast and may well push Burwell today...
Comstock, with a light, fast crew is figured to win by inner rowing circles, but Anderson and Gray should give him a good fight. All the boats are remarkably even in rowing material...