Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their own race for the U. S. service academies at Annapolis and West Point. In 1873 two young Negroes passed the Annapolis entrance examinations and were admitted. Within the year both resigned, because of "deficiencies in their studies." The next year, another Negro went to study at the Naval Academy. Before his plebe (first) term was out he was dismissed, for using "profane and vile" language to a classmate...
President Herbert Clark Hoover's contribution to the League of Nations' disarmament parley in Geneva was the new method which he personally devised to make possible an exact comparison between the fighting strengths of naval ships of different nations according to an algebraic formula (TIME, May 6). Last week the Preparatory Disarmament Commission adjourned without having so much as debated or considered the merits of the Hoover Formula. From the first the President's representative-Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium-had been ready to divulge details of the formula in confidence to those nations...
...victory for the slugging, slamming, slaughtering CRIMSON nine will follow the heels of the naval encounter. Robert Lampoon, stalwart stroke of the Mt. Auburn Street shell, will as usual be on the mound for the jester nine. It will be the diminutive southpaw's twenty-eighth attempt to turn back the board of Plympton Street bingles, and it will be his twenty-eighth failure. Despite the doomed position of his mates, the twirley was in good spirits last night, and it is thought that the little optimist actually hopes to hold his opponents total down to 21 or even...
...first string oarsmen won out over, the Jayvees in a race slightly longer than a mile and three quarters in the Charles River Basin yesterday afternoon. With two possible shifts in the eights imminent, the crews will hold a short practice session this afternoon and will entrain for the Naval Academy on the Federal Express this evening...
...rather elaborate picture. If there is any main fault to be found with this offering it is the overabundance of material. The scenes follow in such profusion that at times the thread of the story is completely lost but in spite of the occasional tedium the two naval encounters make up for many defects, being as good as any ever filmed...