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Word: kingposts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1935-1935
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...TIME must be nautical-term-wise in reporting the vantage point from which "The Commander-in-Chief" views Navy sham action, why pick on "No. 2 barbette?" Why not have the President suspended from port-aft-quarter-boom-kingpost in a boatswain's-chair or some other unlikely position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 4, 1935 | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

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