Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel Atkins Eliot Jr., educator, playwright...
...Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, Admiral Samuel Shelburne Robison was advanced. He will succeed Admiral Robert E. Coontz after the return of the fleet from its cruise to Australia. Then Admiral Coontz will have leave of absence, and will be assigned to other duty?probably with the General Board of the Navy. Admiral S. S. Robison (not to be confused with Admiral J. K. Robison?see below) has been Commander of the Battle Fleet. A man of 58, he commanded at one time or another, the Cincinnati, Jupiter, South Carolina. During the War, he commanded the Submarine...
...Samuel Adams Edwin Booth Charles Bulfmch Horace Bushnell George .Rogers Clark John Singleton Copley Dorothea Lynde Uix Cyrus West Field William L. Garrison Nathaniel Greene Thomas J. ("Stonewall") Jackson John Jay John Paul Jones
...loosed their striped collars with trembling forefingers. But ho!-American Flag, in second place, was behaving queerly. Jockey Johnson, on his back, did not lift his hands, raise his whip. But American Flag bounded past Prince de Bourbon as if the latter were shod with billets. To his owner, Samuel D. Riddle, went the stakes, and a great silver basket donated by the late Major August Belmont. The obliging gentlemen thoughtfully relit their masticated, short cigars. They had, as usual, been right...
...Haven, exercises were held by the Winchester Junior Rifle Corps of which one Samuel Moore, 17, is a member. At 8:30 a. m., this Moore began to shoot. The range was 50 ft. The round black centre of the target was no bigger than a nickel. At 3:57 that afternoon, he stopped. During that time, he had scored 1,500 successive bull's-eyes-a world's record...