Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This advertisement was not so incongruous as it seemed at first glance. It was an advertisement of the Fall River Line, whose ships ply through placid Long Island Sound and never far from the New England coast...
...Still less does the visitor to that tranquil but busy continent suspect such imminent dangers threatening its long coast line and its growing overseas commerce as to demand a 'larger number of warships than any other nation. For such, in effect, is President Coolidge's claim...
...vessel's guns reach twelve kilometers farther than those of our old first-line ships and fire thrice as fast per minute. The risk of its sinking has been materially reduced through a new kind of armor and a new division of bulkheads below the waterline. Its structural advantages are manifold Chief among them are, first, a great saving of weight through the use of light metals in all possible parts; second, weight saving through use of electrical method of welding its plates, doing away with all rivets. Through this alone we saved 550 tons...
...capable of developing high speed which will enable it to avoid conflict with a superior force. It is vastly superior to the ordinary 10,000-ton cruisers and would be a dangerous adversary of a full-sized battleship. Its armament surpasses that of our old ships of the line...
...bull. He has the boundless Slavic intensity and energy which make the leaders of his race indefatigable in labor, irresistible in personal charm. Years ago, in Paris, his posters of Sarah Bernhardt as Gismonda and La Samaritaine took him pyrotechnically to fame. They were graceful of line, palely florescent of decoration, for which he has a penchant at once Pre-Raphaelite, Russian. Feted as he was with Parisian fanfares, he returned regularly to the quietude of central Europe, to that Slavic ridge which is saturated with spontaneous, vivid...