Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest ships in the Navy (each 32,600 tons). Behind these in single file would come the 15 other battleships, stretching back six miles to the Pedro Miguel locks where the Florida (oldest and fastest of them all) would be chafing to get put. Then about one mile of light cruisers; then the submarines- almost a hundred of them-with their vanguard creeping midget-like through the yawning Gaillard Cut;* then another five miles of 106 pert destroyers impatient for the open sea; finally the submarine chasers, the mine sweepers, the airplane carriers, the colliers, the oilers, the cargo ships...
...hearing the woodeny familiar rattle of machine-guns nearby, seeing a glow like a petal in the sky over Birger's "Shady Rest." Carl Shelton had tried an attack. His followers, with their caps pulled down and revolvers in each hand, stalked through woods blazing with electric light toward the roadhouse from whose windows jetted rods of blue flame. The attack failed. Carl Shelton said he would get Charles Birger...
Princeton, N. J., November 3. In its final practice at Princeton before the Harvard clash on Saturday, the Tiger eleven spent the whole afternoon in light, but intensive work...
...comparatively light Monday conditioning practice closed with Team A going through a long forward passing drill, with French and Putnam doing the throwing...
Although the University attack functioned smoothly and powerfully and the showing of the individual players from the starting eleven to the last substitute was excellent, the game threw very little light on the probable showing of the Crimson in its approaching objective games...