Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...service." Under this clause the largest navy in the world might be built and a complete "naval reservist" staff trained to man it-all ships being carefully kept "out of service." Upon the declaration of war, the running up of a few naval flags would put the fleet "in service" with a vengeance...
Tomorrow afternoon, Rindge will race against a fleet of private school eights, with the winner to be named scholastic champion. The members of the winning eight on Thursday will be given medals donated by the Harvard, Athletic Association...
...Texans alike are content to rejoice that their lette. 3 back and forth about cows, and about oil, cotton, shipping and mail-order goods, are in transit a whole business day less than they used to be. Last week the National Air Transport Inc. inaugurated daily service with a fleet of airmail trucks between Chicago and Dallas, the Post Office Department's third contract air route...
...program new to local sport patrons, a canine carnival. The shadows were whippets. Other creatures performed- a shepherd dog with ten woolly charges, a circus of Pomeranians, high-jumping hounds, racing police dogs- but the whippets had a world's championship at stake and their fleet heats monopolized the interest of the tens of thousands of spectators...
Lethargic folk, who have not read Admiral Lord Fisher's Memories, are sure to jump when Mr. Bakeless reminds them that as long ago as 1907 "it seemed to Admiral Fisher [then First Sea Lord] simply a sagacious act on England's part to seize the German fleet when it was so very easy of accomplishment . . . probably without bloodshed...