Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between them long-armed John H. Herrick, center, and fleet William W. Shirk, right forward, contributed all but eight of the home team points...
...natural gas. Kokomo changed from an agricultural depot to a thriving manufacturing centre. After Elwood Haynes made his first successful run with his horseless carriage on July 4, 1894 at Kokomo, the town became Indiana's Detroit. There Haynes located his plant and there also was built the fleet, low-strung Apperson '"Jackrabbit...
Biggest naval battle of the Great War, according to the Germans, was the victory of their High Sea Fleet at Skagerrak, May 31, 1916; according to the British, the victory of their Grand Fleet at Jutland, the same date. As even little Peterkin or little Wilhelmine might have pointed out, this could hardly be so, since the two battles were one and the same. Like other contemporary mix-ups, however, the action was so far from clean-cut that both sides could claim a victory and both sides did. Eighteen years after the event, Authors Gibson & Harper do their Allied...
First news of the battle was broadcast by Germany, whose fleet got back to Wilhelmshaven 24 hours before Jellicoe's sea-dogs limped in to their base at Scapa Flow. By the time the British Admiralty got around to contradicting the German report, Englishmen and the world at large were inclined to think that Germany had had the better of it. As far as damage goes, official figures still support their claim-British losses: 14 ships (112,000 tons), 6,094 men; German losses: 11 ships (60,000 tons), 2,551 men. But German Admiral Scheer was first...
...this time, when Germany most needs the support of the world, France is busying herself building cement trenches and machine gun nests on her frontier, and supporting a fleet of 5,000 military planes in deadly fear that Germany is secretly preparing for war. And yet it is only the politicians and newspapers of Paris that seem to fear and imagine this war, for again and again in the frontier provinces," Mr. Villard said. "I have found the peasants and towns people in perfectly friendly relations with the Germans...