Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...green sea lapped wickedly as it broke into little crests of foam. Suddenly the atmosphere vibrated to the staccato dots and dashes of radio-Admiral Kwanji Kato was ordering a night destroyer attack in the Japanese naval maneuvers in the Sea of Japan, 20 miles northeast of Mihoseki. The fleet broke up into attacking and defending parties. The defending warships threw out a smoke screen to hide the flashes of their guns. Bombardment be- gan under battle conditions. Cutting through the sea at full speed, the 850-ton destroyers Warabi and Ashi rode out to meet the "enemy," dashing fearlessly...
...Japan mourned and Emperor Hirohito sent a special representative to the fleet to express his sympathy. From Washington Acting Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson cabled...
Rear Admiral Hough, 56, reported the incident to his superior, Vice Admiral Clarence Stewart Williams, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet. He recalled, too, that while commander of the Yangtze patrol, the post he still occupies, he narrowly escaped death while playing golf on the Hankow course when Chinese soldiers fired upon him and his party. What the Admiral said on that occasion is not recorded...
...England, a plot of ground was discovered in London near Fleet Street, that had never been built on. Diggers unearthed "15 feet of solid history," relics dating from the Paleolithic period (with a gap from Saxon times to the 13th Century) to the present. ¶Workmen digging for foundations for the new Bank of England building turned up the leather soles of Roman women's shoes. Newspaper stories were written to the effect that styles have changed little...
...monopoly of selling Russian oil in Egypt; 2) 500,000 tons of raw naphtha for sale in Mediterranean countries; 3) 500,000 tons of fuel oil for Standard Oil ship filling stations at Constantinople, Port Said and Colombo; 4) six years' rights to get oil for its tanker fleet from Russian Naphtha Syndicate tank stations at Marseilles, Genoa, Constantinople and Baku...