Word: flotilla
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Putting a flotilla of eights on the water today, Harvard will serve in the double capacity of co-host with Tech and hard-fighting competitor to the untried Ithacans and the Big Red crews. The Crimson will go to the line in the Varsity, Jayvee, Freshman, and 150 pound classes as will Cornell and Tech, with only Syracuse failing to bring its full complement of 36 men ready to pull or yell for the alma mater until the last ounce of energy is expended...
President Roosevelt, who can still find time to enjoy the pleasures and pastimes of the rich, last week boarded Vincent Astor's yacht Nourmahal at Poughkeepsie, steamed down the Hudson and up Long Island Sound to Newport. There, in the midst of a flotilla of pleasure craft valued at a billion dollars, the President planned to remain four days to witness the America's Cup races between British Challenger Endeavour and U. S. Defender Rainbow...
...Japanese commander-in-chief, Admiral Heihachiro Togo, knew that Admiral Rozhestvensky was a brave, capable and intelligent adversary. He knew that the Russian fleet was slightly superior numerically to his own: eight battleships, twelve cruisers, nine destroyers to five battleships, three second-line battleships, 23 cruisers and a flotilla of gunboats, torpedo boats and destroyers. But Admiral Togo also knew that Admiral Rozhestvensky's fleet was undermanned and under-provisioned, that all its bottoms were foul from its long sea voyage, that it could not carry enough coal to dodge all the way around Japan to Vladivostok with...
...ground. There in 1907 another Roosevelt dispatched his "Great White Fleet" on its first world cruise. There in 1927 seasick Calvin Coolidge received the Fleet's salutes slumped in a chair on the deck of the Mayflower. There in 1930 Herbert Hoover gloomily watched a gloomy and debilitated flotilla go by. Exercise M. Behind the Fleet, as it steamed toward its New York review, lay long weeks of hard work and intensive maneuver. Ever since it hove out of San Diego April 9. hustling, pink-cheeked Admiral David Foote Sellers, its Commander-in-Chief, had put it through almost...
...Dryad he plowed the Indian Ocean from the Strait of Malacca to the Gulf of Aden, trained his guns on Mohammed bin Abdullah, the mad Mullah of Somaliland. For that they made him a Medal & Clasp Commander. In 1914, -15, -16, -17 on the flagship of the British Destroyer Flotilla, he trained his guns on Austrian submarines. For that they gave him the D. S. 0. In 1918 he sat at the Admiralty desk of "Director of Operations." For that they made him a Companion of the Bath, an officer of the Legion of Honor, gave him the Rising...