Word: fleets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Steel Corporation, he became chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, which office he held for eighteen years. He was also director of many other large companies, and from April to December, 1918, was Director-General of shipbuilding, U. S. Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation...
...Rocked in the cradle of the deep and nourished with the vintage of better years, this lucky foundling may be expected to pass rapidly from infancy to justy childhood. And who knows but that in a few years' time it may assume the same proportions as did our merchant fleet in the days of the rum-runners known to the men of the Revolution...
...stop the accurate passes made by the opposing twelve or to use the same tactics in spite of keeping the ball in the English territoroy during most of the second half. By a massed formation on the defence, the opponents crushed the Crimson attack time and time again. The fleet-footed British forwards, who showed unquestionable superiority in handling both the stick and the ball while on the run, pentrated Coach Caton's defence with little difficulty...
...prestige that was won for us by the Conference in establishing the 5-5-3 ratio for battleships," said Rear-Admiral Albert Gleaves, in an interview for the CRIMSON yesterday morning. "It is clear that the Conference did not contemplate a reduction in the personnel and auxiliaries of the fleet, but in limiting us to 18 'battleships the Conference, or at least our delegates assumed that that implied a homogenous and well-rounded out navy. Such a navy as the Conference contemplated, which is called a 'Hughes navy', would require 140,000 enlisted men. As soon...
...Beta Kappa key--at least on the statistical blank handed about the class a few weeks before graduation. As to which honor he has spent most of his time pursuing during the preceding four years, that is perhaps another story. Even if he did spent more time chasing the fleet football than what Mr. Dooley once called "the more fleet aorist", he had some theoretical respect for that part of man which grows above the neck. Now, apparently, quite otherwise. The pleasant, rasp of the golden key as it slides along the watch chain seems a pale delight compared...