Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lively and perennial is the dispute between the Modernists and Fundamentalists of pedagogy over the merits and morals of the jingles which Mrs. Elizabeth Foster Vergoose of17th Century Boston sang to her large brood of moppets and which her son-in-law, one T. Fleet, published in 1719 as Songs for the Nursery or Mother Goose's Melodies for Children...
...edition of the Notre Dame horsemen and adds that while football history is studded with backfields as good or better than the "Four Furies" ... "we wouldn't trade Harvard's sophomore quartet for the present Notre Dame array. Mays is a shiftier carrier than Elder and almost as fleet in football clothes...
After midnight one night last week, three cars sped up to the gate of the high-walled U. S. Naval Base in Brooklyn, N. Y., where are stored the Atlantic fleet's supplies. Out leaped six men. A guard felt the tickly touch of revolver muzzles, swung open the gate. Into the wide Naval Depot yard swept the cars. The guard was forced to unlock the door of the eight-story main building. Then the raiders trussed him up, plastered his mouth with adhesive tape, locked him in the Depot detention...
...shrewd and able executive is Victor M. Cutter, onetime timekeeper and now President of United Fruit Co. Most famed North-Central American enterprise, U. F. C. is the largest fruit shipper (97 steamships in the Great White Fleet), largest landowner (2,000,000 acres in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Canary Islands, Jamaica, Nicaragua, England, France, U. S.), largest U. S. banana importer (1928: 33,872,000 stems). Last year the Great White Fleet carried 72,000 passengers. On land, United Fruit Co. operates 2,300 miles of railway and tramway, owns herds of 30,000 cattle...
These ships, designers hope, will be able to make regular transoceanic trips. Biggest U. S. seaplane is Major Reuben Hollis Fleet's Consolidated Commodore: span 100 ft., length 62 ft., 2 motors, 1,050 h. p. Biggest U. S. land plane is Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker's F-32, span 99 ft., length 70 ft., 4 motors, 2,100 h. p. These have just been tried out and sold for South American passenger service...