Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opportunity is offered students of the University 'who will complete their college work this coming June to take an intensive training course in aviation. The Naval Flying Unit at Squantum is attempting to secure about 50 students from Harvard and Technology who will enter a course of training which will eventually qualify them as ensigns in the Naval Reserve Aviation Corps. Attention is called to the fact that this is open not only to students in the college, but also to those of the graduate schools in the University...
Many a political pundit, especially the editorial writers of Eastern newspapers, expressed horror at Mr. Britten's "amazing indiscretion." They tartly accused him of publicity-seeking. They said he was trying to show off because he had just become chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee. They reminded people that he was the Congressman who wangled the Army-Navy football game out of the East and onto Soldier Field, Chicago, two years ago-a "publicity stunt" if ever there was one. Moreover Mr. Britten had been notoriously a Big Navy man. His volte face could only be meant...
...such criticism Mr. Britten might have replied that 1) he had long loomed as large on the Naval Affairs Committee as its last chairman, the late Representative Butler of Pennsylvania; 2) that publicity-seeking is not necessarily reprehensible, depending entirely on what you seek to promote, yourself or a good idea, and 3) that one is not necessarily a Big Navy man out of sheer blood-thirst, that Big Navy men might gladly become Little Navy men if all other Big Navy men would join them...
...venerable, famed. Proudly the small spectacled Tenno, whom Japanese adore as the Son of Heaven, surveyed the long, grim, double file of his grey war boats. This was his day of might! With the plain wooden paddle which is his simple sceptre, Emperor Hirohito now rules the third greatest naval power in the world...
...Naval Hospital at Washington, Dr. Edward Francis was a patient last week, suffering from Malta fever. For several days his temperature was high, 103 degrees and above. But it was certain to go down to normal. As certainly, after a period of ease, it will go high again. Such is the characteristic of the disease, and hence its variant name, undulant fever. It is endemic along the Mediterranean coasts, particularly on the Island of Malta. In the U. S. Texas is the pest area. Those regions raise goats and goats are the carriers of the disease...