Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democratic outlook. One feature, forgotten in the turmoil of the Smith defeat, was Vice President-Reject Robinson's continued presence in the Senate. With President-Reject Smith retiring to private life and Governor-Elect Roosevelt taking his place in New York, the party's official Number Two Man had been all but forgotten by commentators on the party's potential leadership for the period 1928-1932. The President-Reject unmistakably pointed out the Vice President-Reject as a man to rally around at once...
...Army team won the largest number of individual prizes but was beaten by Germany for the really important award, the so-called International Military Trophy, which Poland...
...gale now was driving. The starboard list increased. In the dining saloon, dishes slid from the tables and chairs toppled over. Officers went about with assuring words. The passengers did not know that a number of cased automobiles had gone crashing through a partition in the hold, toward the starboard side, making matters worse.* They did not know that the stokers were working waist-deep in water, that cabin stewards were bailing there with buckets that might as well have been thimbles...
...Still less does the visitor to that tranquil but busy continent suspect such imminent dangers threatening its long coast line and its growing overseas commerce as to demand a 'larger number of warships than any other nation. For such, in effect, is President Coolidge's claim...
Turning to the matter of Sea Power, the President recalled that Britain possesses, apart from her navy, certain "advantages" not possessed by the U. S., namely a large merchant fleet capable of being armed. He concluded: We are entitled to a larger number of warships than a nation having these advantages...