Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...badly the Navy wanted the passage of this bill was evident from a report made only two days earlier to the House Subcommittee on Naval Appropriations by Secretary Wilbur. This report was a veritable primer, explaining fully for the lay mind the fundamentals of sea power. Mr. Wilbur explained the nature and uses of the several kinds of naval vessels, showing how the power of a fleet is dependent on a proper number of all types, and then explained what the 5-5-3 naval ratio really means: that by the allotment of tonnage the American fleet would be stronger...
...single-masted boat, and with only one companion, Dr. Richard Matthews Hallett '08 of Booth Bay Harbor, Maine, set sail yesterday from Booth Bay for Bermuda, the French West Indies, the Caribbean Sea and the coasts of South America. The romantic cruise is to last from five months to a year, and if all goes well, will include a trip through the Panama Canal and up to Los Angeles galore in Hallett and his companion, Henry Rowland of Washington, D. C., turn their 41-foot ketch toward home again...
...Administrative Committee reported on its plans for a great national conference on the Christian way of life. Said Dr. John M. Moore of Brooklyn: "The idea has crossed the sea" (reference to England's conference at Birmingham last spring on Christian Politics, Economics and Citizenship known as Capec...
...study of the subject I have observed how such utilization of a natural resource which otherwise would run into waste in the sea and not remain and increase as the forest would, both gives impetus to industrial life and provides a safe and enduring investment for capital...
...Gentlemen: As you may understand from what fol- lows, I have a deep regard for your paper. In your issue dated Dec. 8, I was especially interested by a letter from Subscriber DuCloe regarding the existence of little fishes 6¼ miles below the surface of the sea. He points out that this is impossible because the temperature of the water there is only about 32° and the pressure 2½ tons per sq. in. He might have added to these common-sense objections the impossibility of obtaining food. Irrefutable as these reasons may seem, they are not conclusive...