Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five Years at Sea...
After graduating from Annapolis these officers have spent from five to seven years at sea. They have then been selected for special training in radio and electrical work at the University, with one year of post graduate work at Annapolis as a preparation. When they complete their course here next year, they will be given practical training and experience in established firms engaged in electrical work, will finish off with two months of research work at the Bellevue Research Laboratory of the Navy near Washington, D. C., and again resume their posts at sea...
...with the experts in destroying or neutralizing every atom of phosgene which he possessed by any means which they would agree to suggest. His loss, he said, would be about $25,000. The experts then began a learned squabble, some advising that the phosgene be dumped into the North Sea, others declaring that such a procedure would poison untold millions of fish, and still others recommending that the safest thing to do would be decant the gas into new, strong tanks and sell it as quickly as possible to widely spread consumers. Eventually the consensus of opinion was that...
King Amanullah and Queen Thuraya of Afghanistan emerged, last week, from Soviet Russia. From Moscow via the Crimea and the Black Sea they came to Constantinople, then plunged inland to Angora, the new capital of the Turkish Republic. There King Amanullah, called "The Peace of God" had his hand warmly shaken and both cheeks soundly kissed by the Ghazi, "The Victorious One," President Mustafa Kemal Pasha...
Next day Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd, the last U. S. player, was beaten by an Englishwoman named Fowler who was beaten by one named Marshall who then played Mlle. Le Blan in the finals. There was rain again and the cold sea wind harried the dunes. The big gallery scared both women, but Mlle. Le Blan least. Mlle. Le Blan has a flashing eye, a hook nose, a big mouth, and a strong, graceful body. She wore stockings, leather coat, woolen gloves, like Miss Wragg. Since she felt comfortable her drives were long and hard, her putts accurate. She beat...