Word: launching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aircraft carrier Langley, at her dock in San Diego, Calif. Other ships of war in the harbor heard an explosion, saw a sheet of flame. Smoke poured from a gaping hole in the Langley's side abaft her bridge. Three sailors who had been working in a launch slung from the Langley's davits, struggled in the water...
...Harvard crews from 1908 to 1915, inclusive, were coached by James Wray, and won six of the eight races rowed, the 1908 race being the one in which the Yale stroke was taken into the launch at the three-mile mark and the crew finished with seven men in the shell...
...such fiery Opposition leaders as Messrs. Gregory Zinoviev and Leon Trotzky. These gentry proclaim with sincerity and zeal the necessity of at once throwing the whole might of Soviet Russia behind the Chinese revolution. Indeed M. Zinoviev goes even further and demands that every possible effort be made to launch "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat...
This was, of course, an allusion to the formal charges of the Soviet Government last fortnight that Britain means to launch war upon the Soviets and maintains "spies and assassins" throughout Soviet territory. Against this so-called "British terror" the Soviet continued its adroitly named "counter terror." A score of alleged "British spies" were reported sentenced to death in Russia last week, notably one "Commander Klepikov of a ship in the Baltic fleet, who sold information to the British...
...stroke mounted to 35. During the last few-yards the beat was lowered to 29. The men were is good condition to paddle back to the boat-house, but Coach E. J. Brown '96 took no chances with the inclement weather, and sent his charges back in the launch...