Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There naval officials descended into the gruesome, barnacled grotto of the dead, and as they fumbled through the rusty, sea-fouled compartments, scenes of the death struggles were revealed. Men had stuck to their posts. Inside the gash where the Rome had bitten, pinned between the bent steel plates and the engineroom bulkhead, was the body of a seaman. One arm was stretched out in an effort to grasp the lever which would have closed an emergency valve and perhaps have saved the lives of some of his fellows...
...period of five years, at the end of which 2,200 first-class fighting planes are to have been built. There are to be in the service 1,650 regular flying officers, 550 reserve officers, and 15,000 enlisted men, ($89,000,000 had previously been appropriated for naval aviation.) Simultaneously the President nominated and the Senate ap proved Edward P. Warner and Frederick Trubee Davison as Assist ant Secretaries of the Navy and Army, respectively, to direct aviation. Edward P. Warner, skilled aero-engineer and aerodynamicist, young enthusiast, has been professor of aeronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where...
...troublous times in the Sandwich Islands. For nearly 25 years American missionaries had been establshed on the Islands, and although human sacrifice, polyandry, polygamy and the unspeakable punalua were disappearing and a prohibition law had been enacted, license and drunkenness were still rampant and, only five years before, French Naval officers had raped the laws of the kingdom, imported liquor, extorted money, introduced Roman Catholic priests. But the joyance of the Doles could not be extinguished by such considerations, for to them had been born a son christened Sanford Ballard Dole...
Your suggestions as to the value of extended military training are, to say the least, ingenious and bold. You hint that the new naval course "can help toward making such (military) science the accessory of the average citizen and thus militate against the further development of real jingoists." A scholarly idea, suggestive of a wide historical background! Undoubtedly you remember that this very idea of training the whole nation was followed most thoroughly before the war by Germany. Can you, by any stretch of memory, recall if there was not the slightest tendency toward jingoism in that nation...
Allow me to congratulate you upon having stepped back into the province of irremediable respectability with your editorial of June 16 entitled: The Naval R. O. T. G. Whatever rude shocks, the CRIMSON may have inflicted upon stony conservatism in the past by espousing worthy but novel causes, it may now be freed of all suspicion of liberalism by its present docile lisping of the syllables of staunchest reaction...