Word: iron-clad
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...less than three weeks the fat to muscle metamorphosis of the allegedly physically dormant Harvard man is scheduled to begin. Yet with compulsory athletics all but an actuality, the plans and policies of University Hall, the HAA, and the Hygiene Department are still in the amendment stage. The initially iron-clad announcement of supervised conditioning for all has been relaxed to allow credit for geology field trips, team managing, and possibly bicycling as well as for participation in Naval and Military Science, and Varsity and House athletics. Apparently the compulsory athletics plan is no exception to the University's well...
...fought off the Japanese invasions for centuries. thus, China was never menaced by samurai aggression until the latter part of the nineteenth century. In order to put an end to the chronic invasions of the hostile islanders, as early as 1591, Admiral Yi Soon-sin invented iron-clad warships. With them he annihilated the Japanese wooden fleet. From then on, Korea was at peace until...
...broadside into the flaming town. In an extraordinarily daring exploit, one British "light vessel" (possibly a destroyer) penetrated Bardia's inner harbor, and in a hail of Italian machine-gun fire from shore, sank three Italian supply vessels. The Italians tried, with torpedo planes, to drive off the iron-clad fortresses which their shore batteries could not hit or harm, but the R. N. stood its water in a historic demonstration of naval fire power supporting a land attack. The R. N. also supplied water, food and munitions to the land forces, which were 130 miles from their railhead...
...same and keep up with the Joneses. But the Navy admits it has "no definite information" about Japan's building program, and our fleet still has a marked superiority over Nippon's. So long as we maintain that edge, and so long as we hang on to our iron-clad island defense line in the Pacific, which centers on Oahu, "the most formidable maritime fortress and naval outpost in the world," we are safe from the Land of the Rising Sun. In the words of Major Fielding Eliot, America's prolific number one military critic, "we can, if we have...
...portly, potbellied, black-mustachioed Philadelphia lawyer named John Graver Johnson (tops among U. S. corporation lawyers and trust protectors of his time) drew up a noteworthy document. It was an iron-clad lease by which Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. promised to pay 49 small traction companies $7,100,000 a year for 999 years for the privilege of running its street cars over their right of way. For the stockholders of the 49 underlying companies-among them the Wideners, the Elkinses and other First Philadelphia Families-this was a mighty fine deal. Their original investment in one case consisted...