Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week he took on a new role. A few weeks earlier his latest musical show, Operette, had opened in London, got distinctly chilly reviews-which jangled Coward's nerves. Sympathetic as a family physician, the British Admiralty promptly sent him on an official visit to the Mediterranean fleet, bade him find out what British sailors like in the way of movies...
...forbidding foreign vessels to fish anywhere on Alaska's 100-mile continental shelf. Grumpy Alaskans appeared at committee hearings on the bill to testify that Japanese boats had been observed within the three-mile limit hauling in salmon with four-mile nets, that aviators flying over the Japanese fleet had seen as many as 20,000 salmon piled on the decks of four fishing vessels, that at the present rate Alaska's salmon would not last five years. The State Department, whose agreements with Great Britain and Japan settled the similar dispute over Bering Sea seal fishing...
...Lahore, India. A loyal supporter of Great Britain, he ruled some 1,600,000 people, had an annual income of about $2,500,000, wore a 21-strand pearl necklace valued at $5,000,000, enjoyed possession of the world's finest collection of emeralds, had a fleet of 21 Rolls-Royces, one senior and two junior maharanis...
...sure he could never lure sportsmen into an art gallery. Accordingly he displayed his 298 pieces-ranging from a bulging bronze called Shot-Putter (Why Not?) to a sentimental painting of ducks at dusk-in the Midland Club Hotel, posted them around a cellophane pond on which floated a fleet of wooden decoys. At the opening, two attendants at a long bar made the ruddy guests feel quite at home...
...dreams of Harvard sailors who have looked with envy on Tech's fleet of sailing dinghies appear to be coming true as announcement is made of an organization meeting in the Adams House Upper Common Room tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock for all those interested in yachting...