Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago Congress authorized the Navy to build eight light cruisers. Action has been taken to build five of these. President Coolidge in his budget message to Congress (TIME, Dec. 13) did not recommend appropriations for the remaining three cruisers; instead, he suggested that their construction be postponed as a means of bringing the naval powers of the world to a new disarmament agreement...
...armaments the U. S. Navy had fallen below Great Britain and Japan. It now approaches the level of France and Italy. According to the 5-5-3 agreement, it should be the equal of Great Britain. Its chief defect is a scarcity of modern light cruisers and of submarines in commission...
...hanging gardens. There will be no awful monument to a heath on god atop the Larkin tower, and no pleasure palace for a buried king. Nearly a quarter of a mile above the level of the street, business men will put down the ticker tape with a sigh, light a cigar and go to sleep; stenographers will take the opportunity to powder the insatiable nose; and secretaries, peering softly through the door, will tell visitors, "he's in conference." Over their heads Girl Scouts from Waukegan will scream at the wind, and their little brothers will all but dive into...
...tall timber, where little light comes through, you may run a trail almost anywhere; there is often little to do but blaze the route. But even here there will be an occasional tree that has fallen of old age, and it will be a big one. you must chop or saw through it, perhaps twice, very likely an hour's real work. Out of this forest you may pass into a section where a storm has wreaked navoc. All the big trees are down, and a new forest, head high, is growing up so thick that (as has been said...
Then after a trail has been cleared it comes right back and begins to grow up again. The clearing lets in more light for the remaining trees, which grow the faster in that direction. Seedlings take root and prosper. Each winter trees fall across the path from two or three to twenty or thirty to the mile according to the severity of the storms and the local conditions; and once or twice in a generation there comes a storm that lays low whole stretches of forest and obliterates miles of trail. Aside from such storms a trail long maintained...