Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want to emphasize the fact that in our building program, our plans are based on our own needs; we are rounding out the fleet to form a homogeneous unit to protect the country against our enemies," was the statement made by C. D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
...complete. The skyship, equipped to carry 100 passengers in cabins, is expected to make only a few trips to the U. S. and will then go into service between England and Egypt. But Commander Burney purposed, last week, to raise capital in the U. S. wherewith to build a fleet of trans-Atlantic dirigibles which would carry passengers between London and New York in 48 hours or less for a $500 fare...
...destroyers led by the cruiser Memphis constitute the guard of honor. Captain Joseph R. Defrees is new aboard the Texas but his crew are well used to having glorified passengers aboard. The Texas is U. S. flagship and on her lives Admiral Henry Ariosto Wiley, commander of all the fleet.* When newsgatherers last week saw bigger & better portholes being built into the most sumptuous suite on the Texas at Brooklyn Navy Yard, they inferred the improvement was in honor of the President. But a deck officer said: "Not at all! We're putting those in for our Admiral." Caesar...
Flying in the face of Providence, and disregarding the combination of Friday the 13th, Boat 13 was the first shell to take the water. Three University eights, one 150-pound boat, and a Freshman crew comprised the fleet that paddled up and down for a brief spin. The seatings of the crews were all chosen entirely by chance...
...freshman year he went for one month to a citizens' military camp: after sophomore year he worked for six weeks with Dr. Grenfell's mission in Labrador; at the close of junior year he had a month and a half with the Banks fishing fleet and after graduation he spent July and August with a forestry outfit. All of it was open air work, putting him in good physical condition and in touch with all sorts and conditions of men. He used only twenty-six of the forty-eight free weeks at his disposal, but I don't care what...