Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Henry Ford's Oscar II sailed out of New York Harbor one December day in 1915 to end the World War, its rail was lined with the most distinguished collection of naïve idealists the U. S. had laughed at in many a year. Aboard the Peace Ship were Rosika Schwimmer with a black bag full of papers from the Premiers of Europe, Feminist Inez Milholland, Publisher Samuel S. McClure, Judge B. B. Lindsey, Governor Louis B. Hanna of North Dakota, many another headliner of that era. Also aboard was a husky youngster...
...need of relief is bullnecked, freckle-browed Reginald Marsh, whose two panels, one showing muscular workmen loading mail from spiral chutes to a waiting train, the other of an ocean liner transferring mail to a tender in New York harbor, were the first to be completed, set up and accepted in the new Washington Post Office Department Building in Washington...
...China Clipper again left the ramp at Alameda, taxied across the harbor. Almost away, she hit a floating log, rammed a hole in her bottom, went back to the landing for repairs. At the same time Pan American elected to change all eight motors in the two Clippers to improved models. Result: Four more days delay...
...fleet. Once again his guns spread the death-shade declaration, in a night attack on a squadron of the Russian fleet, sleeping at anchor off Port Arthur. After the first on-set Togo never let up; he raided them, hammered them by indirect fire when they hid in the harbor, finally exasperated them into a dash for Vladivostok. Then, in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, Togo gave the Russians a fearful pounding, drove the shattered remnants of the fleet back to Port Arthur, where he potted them at long distance one by one, "like beasts in a pit." Meanwhile...
...wait, he knew the coming battle of Tsushima (he had even picked the place) would be the decisive contest of the war. It was the greatest naval fight since Trafalgar, greatest until Jutland. Turning the Russian fleet from their one chance, a dash to the harbor of Vladivostok. Togo in naval parlance "crossed the T"-led his ships in line across the top of the Russian column, with all his guns free to fire while the Russians were masked by their own ships. From the exposed fighting top of his flagship, the Mikasa, Togo saw the Russian battleships, their formation...