Word: offs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Off San Diego in the Pacific last week the V4, largest U. S. submarine, "sank" in 86 feet of water, carrying down a crew of 87 officers & men. Thirty-nine minutes later they heard the welcome thump of a diver's 20-lb. shoes on her deck. Above was...
Fierce summer warfare broke out anew last week in the sea angle, between Long Island and New Jersey, which forms the entrance to New York Harbor. An enemy fleet viciously attacked U. S. land defenses at Forts Hancock and Tilden and was finally repulsed, but only after lower Manhattan, the...
Great Britain and the United States henceforth are not to compete in armament as political opponents, but to cooperate as friends in the reduction of it. -HERBERT HOOVER. When Calvin Coolidge quit the White House amid U. S. plaudits he left many a Briton sorely vexed and honestly uneasy lest...
Since the cocky little Welshman often goes off halfcocked, his outburst assumed real importance only when wizened Philip Snowden, Labor's new Chancellor of the Exchequer, observed in his most bilious tones, "I cannot trust myself to say what I think of the way we have been treated .... I...
Above all other military duties private soldiers enjoy listening to lectures. Whether the subject is Elementary Gunnery or Advanced Hygiene does not matter. A soldier at a lecture is quietly sitting down. He is not drilling, digging or carrying anything. Last week soldiers of the First Jugoslavian Infantry stationed at...