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Word: fleetly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Under a fleet of storm clouds like battleships driving in from the Pacific, a tough team from St. Mary's baited the Golden Bears of California. Boyd ("Cowboy") Smith, half-sized halfback, with caliper legs and a blue jersey, ran for 80 yards to make one touchdown, for 45 to make another, and for the first time since 1917 a St. Mary's eleven went home rejoicing from Berkeley. Score: St. Mary's, 26; California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 18, 1926 | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

Last week he was ordered to leave Annapolis on board the transport Chaumont, bound for San Francisco, where he will continue indefinitely the role of midshipman on the Pacific fleet. So Midshipman Zirkle, who might have been an ensign with greater pay and privileges, with the opportunity of an honorable discharge in two years, is still a "middy" as long as the Navy wants to keep him. It is expected, however, that he will be allowed to resign in two years when the spirit of the regulation will have been served. The question: if young Midshipman Zirkle is really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Strange Case | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...everyone knows, eight and one-half round-the-world flights or 72 trips across the Atlantic is the equivalent of 216,000 miles. This is the distance which the Torpedo and Bombing Plane Squadron No. 1 of the Navy scouting fleet has flown in less than a year without a single forced landing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Safety | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

United States Fleet Base Force, Train Squadron One U.S.S. Antares, Flag Ship Navy Yard, Norfolk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 20, 1926 | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

Born on the Island of Hydra in 1855, he adopted a naval career in his earliest youth, and rose to the distinction of twice defeating the Turkish fleet during the Balkan War of 1912-13. An adherent of Diplomat Venizelos, he shared the fortunes of that statesman until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Corps de Telegraph | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

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