Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mounting 10 torpedo tubes, a heavy gun, an anti-aircraft gun, and numerous machine guns, the Redoutable will have a cruising radius of 8,000 miles and can remain at sea for 60 days...
Because a crowd standing in the sea-mist along the race-track at Daytona Beach, Fla., yelled "Action," Frank Lockhart, driver, who had decided not to try for a new auto record that day, turned his car around, drove at 225 miles an hour into the measured mile, hit soft sand, somersaulted into the ocean, landed right side up, in the front pages and in the hospital, suffering from shock...
...suggest that Congress ought to pass a resolution memorializing Colonel Lindbergh not again to risk the hazards of the air or the perils of the sea, but to devote his life to leadership in America in the development of aircraft and in continuing before the young manhood of America that compelling inspiration w'hich his great example has already been...
...Majesty Ibn Saud, warlike Sultan of Nejd and King of the Hejaz, came tidings last week of his flourishing son the Amir Faisal, 19-year-old Viceroy of the Hejaz. The tidings were conveyed 500 miles by motor caravan from the Red Sea town of Jidda in the Hejaz, to the Sultan's inland capital, Riyadh, in Nejd. There was it made known that the enlightened son & Viceroy had finally caused to be obliterated that notorious imposture, "The Tomb of Mother Eve," at Jidda...
Blood spilled in the name of freedom and self-rule saturates the pages of history. Many an ardent patriot has bitten the dust in this cause since Moses led his party across a courteously-disposed Red Sea to the hoped-for freedom of the promised land. Many a sturdy Gaelic cranium has succumbed to violent pressure for the sake of autonomy in the Emerald Isle. But at least we have come upon the group that is loftily indifferent to self-government on whatever terms. This group simply does not care...