Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When War came, Assistant Secretary Roosevelt worked harder than ever to make a good name for himself. He bought up all the supplies he could lay his hands on, borrowed binoculars from the country (and had them returned), helped build the submarine chasing "mosquito fleet," sponsored the North Sea mine barrage over stiff official opposition...
...from Plymouth chugged a fleet of rattling, steaming motorbusses. Fifty blue-helmeted policemen tumbled out like oranges. Not one had a revolver. They took off their overcoats, they spit on their hands, they grasped their truncheons...
...middle of the night. He flung blazing newspapers into the weaving room. Other Japanese attacked policemen attempting to summon fire engines. When the towels were finally extinguished 1,000 Japanese held a mass meeting in the Japan Club, and Rear Admiral Koichi Shiosawa, commander of the Japanese fleet anchored off Shanghai, issued an ultimatum: all anti-Japanese organizations in the foreign settlement as well as in the native cities must be suppressed "on pain of drastic naval action...
...what extent the present-day undergraduate allows the newspaper writers effectively to spread the doctrines of an impending war depends on the student. It is he who concludes from the pictures of our soldiery on duty in the Orient in 1927, and of massive members of our battle fleet, that war is just around the corner...
...orders of Captain Adolphus Watson, U. S. N., now Chief-of-Staff of the Battleship Division of the Pacific Fleet, have been modified to the extent that he will remain in his present capacity until released from duty by the Admiral upon the completion of the Fleet's present manoeuvers in the vicinity of Hawaii...