Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commander Stepp, surgeon of the U. S. scouting fleet, was making a special report to his superiors. The particular corporation he had in mind was the U. S. Navy. He questioned if this corporation was not "juggling" in permitting "maddening engineering competition" between its various elements, "especially when we consider the deleterious effects, on the health and morale of a selected personnel, of permitting a reduction of the standard allowances of heat, ventilation, water and light." Modern battleship design, as every one knows, seeks to eliminate waste space, waste weight, superfluous comfort...
...took counsel with his officers. North of them, the York River hissed and splashed as the whistling wind and driving rain whipped its surface. It was apparent to the British chiefs that they were bottled up. Their plan had been to fortify Yorktown as a base for the British fleet; but the French admiral, De Grasse, controlled all the Chesapeake coast; and now Washington was behind Yorktown on land with 16,000 men. Lord Cornwallis issued his orders. Detachments would attempt to cross the river to Gloucester Point; and, if the crossing could be effected, all would follow and there...
Syracuse roughed and tumbled about with William and Mary, won 24 to 7, but lost the services of Halfback Bowman, the fleet "Chet" Bowman who ran for the U. S. in Colombes Stadium last July. Tackled violently, Bowman left the field "indefinitely," his neck and shoulders damaged...
Having spent three years juggling with the world's finances, training armies, building colossal floating fortresses of impregnable steel, Hogarth blew up a few liners, destroyed the British fleet, established a toll (sea rent) on all passing vessels, finally took over England in the capacity of regent, in order to put into operation his panacea for the ills of the world-a system of land tenure by the nation, not by the individual. The Jews he commanded to return to Palestine...
...appearance of the British Mediterranean fleet, after an interregnum of twenty years, reveals a far seeing policy not at first apparent. In this old arena the greatest potential disturber of the peace is, at present, Italy. A disgruntled nation, with illusions of a revived Roman Empire, she has already turned her attention to the Near East, where she finds herself opposed by her ancient enemy, Greece, now protege of Britain. By making the first move, therefore, England has possibly forestalled new outbreaks in that hatching ground...