Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their way to Montevideo. The 31,100-ton battleship Barham, and the French battleship Dunkergue-it and the Renown two of five Allied ships which can both outrun and outgun German pocket battleships-and the 10,000-ton cruiser Cumberland were rumored to be waiting just over the horizon...
...Besides this, they're Latins even in their diapers, and they love magnificently. For a time it seems as if a watery romance between the schoolmarm of one town and the mayor of the other is going to spoil the whole war; but a big cloud comes over the horizon, and the wonderful battle royal starts all over again...
Most of the students claimed that they were not at all nervous before or during their first experiences. Some of them complained, however, about the difficulty of keeping the ship's nose on the horizon...
...throne World War I began. The British blockade induced a grave food shortage. Trade was completely disrupted and the country was overrun with refugees. Dutch ships were sunk and by 1918 what ships still floated abroad had been seized by the Allies. Only bright spots on The Netherlands' horizon were that: 1) although the Germans considered invading the country, they eventually decided against it, partly because the Dutch had effectively remodeled their land defenses, partly because Germany, already at the Belgian Channel ports, had money and used it to buy supplies in neutral Holland; 2) The Dutch East Indies...
With next Friday's Dartmouth encounter looming on the horizon, the lineup for Coach Henry N. Lamar's hardworking Jayvee football squad is still only tentative and no players have yet clinched definite berths...