Word: monitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...games are of an entirely different nature, and one cannot judge the future of American professional football from what has taken place in the professional soccer world, especially as soccer has not, as yet, been able to meet with any great success in the United States. --Christian Science Monitor...
From the British Admiralty came an announcement last week that the mysterious "sinking without a trace" of the great monitor submarine M-1 (TIME, Nov. 23) is now thought to have resulted from a collision with the little Swedish freighter Vidar, of only 2159 tons, off the coast of Devonshire...
...Carmack, cartoonist to the Christian Science Monitor, key-noted events in Italy last week with the caption "MUZZLE-INI" over the sketch of an Italian peasant, gagged and muzzled by a steel mask labeled "Fascism," while Il Duce, throned in the background, looked grimly...
Meanwhile naval architects reflected that the "M" or "Monitor" class of submarine had been developed by the British Admiralty during the War, and constituted a class of "super mystery ships" which were never employed against the Germans for fear of rousing them to construct a similar and equally deadly naval...
Naturally, since Britain had quite literally the upper hand of the seas during the War, she was far more anxious to keep the secrets of the M-1 class of submarine out of German hands than to reap a slight advantage from employing "monitor subs" herself...