Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Hatch (author of Glenn Curtiss; Pioneer oj Naval Aviation) has the right idea but the wrong place. On the Wrights' first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, their plane rested on a car which ran on a monorail. After a 35-to 40-ft. run, the plane lifted from the rail, and in Orville Wright's own account "climbed a few feet, stalled, then settled to the ground. My stopwatch showed that the machine had been in the air just 3½ seconds." It was not until nearly a year later, on a cow pasture near Dayton...
Aboard the Williamsburg, almost everybody in the President's party was seeing green without looking at the sea. But Harry Truman" did pretty well. When he went ashore a few hours later at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, in Cuba, he alone looked fit. Said the President: "I stood up all right for the simple reason that I didn't get up. I stayed...
Mark II, the Aiken Relay Calculator, has reached its final destination and operating post at the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren Virginia, after a three year residence in the Computation Laboratory here...
Protective Coloration. On Treasure Island, Calif., the Navy finally found Watertender James L. Telfer, listed as a deserter for two years, during which time he had lived in an empty naval barracks and played on a Navy baseball team...
...placed between the goalpost to win 3 to 0. To match this, Harvard must look back to the 1943-44 season when a team, half of them freshmen who had never seen the sport previously, chalked up six wins to one loss and one tie against various British Empire naval and aviation teams...