Word: prowesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London Naval Conference was last week explaining U. S. Navy needs, the U. S. fleet began to assemble at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for winter maneuvers. Well out of public observation, 136 vessels, manned by 100,000 officers and men, will there exhibit to their own satisfaction their sea prowess in attack and defense formation, in target practice, night scouting and all the other simulations of marine warfare. With more than 50 ships already at Guantanamo, the scouting and battle fleets from the Pacific began to pour eastward through the Panama Canal led by the Wyoming, New York, Oklahoma, Nevada, Texas...
...that time and never landing a punch, the Illinois State Athletic Commission withheld the purse. The Commission felt that Rioux had been too consistently horizontal for the fight to be honest. Carnera's friends insisted he was being penalized merely because, in a profession full of chicanery, the prowess of an honest monster taxed credulity...
...stated that his university's object was "the cultivation of physical excellence in young men." This policy supersedes the interest in their collegiate teams, he feels. Such a principle is in direct contrast to the Romans' ideas, for their main interest was in seeing the chosen few display their prowess, and not in athletics of any sort for the multitude. With these Romans Dr. Lowell compares the huge crowds which throng stadiums in the fall, and who give to athletic contests an importance they do not deserve...