Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lifeboats with women and children, then men, continued. Pilot boats, revenue cutters and other craft stood by to assist. Beneath a white pall, in a quiet, gelid sea, the Fort Victoria listed further and further to starboard until only seasoned Captain Albert R. Francis, his pilot, and a skeleton crew of twelve vigorous pumpers remained on board. An attempt was made to tow the foundering vessel to shore, but at length the bubbling water closed over it. Captain Francis and Pilot Frank Moran, last to slide down one horizontal side, were hauled by rescuers out of the Fort Victoria...
Great Britain. Official barometers registered a low mark of 27.5 inches, a low pressure seldom equaled by the worst tropical typhoons. Off the Welsh coast the British destroyer Tormentor, dismantled, was being towed to a shipbreaking yard. The tow rope snapped, the Tormentor and her skeleton crew of four vanished into the storm...
...classification runs through seventeen major classes, but is left open at both ends--an admission of the probable extension of knowledge in both directions. The significance of the classification is said to lie in the skeleton which is afforded all science to bring some measure of order out of the world's present chaotic knowledge of the systems of various kinds. All systems find a place in this synthesis--atoms, comets, and galaxies; man, radiation, and the space-time complex. When looked at in this objective way, human beings, and all associated terrestrial organisms, appear only parenthetically...
While the linemen were engaged in a strenuous session of live tackling and on the dummies, Coaches Horween, Casey and Bradford worked with the backs and ends. Skeleton teams were organized and all the finer points of play were explained. Speed and accurate timing in the execution of offensive assignments, especially in lateral pass plays, was sought. The entire squad was then given a blackboard talk...
...Australian conscription law provided that boys must register at the age of 14, that those physically able must serve as citizen soldiers between the age of 17 and 21, must drill two hours weekly, attend camp one week each summer for field instruction. There is no regular army. A skeleton force of 1,582 instructors is retained as a "permanent" army. To defend the continent last year there were just 45,273 citizen soldiers potentially under arms.* Said Prime Minister Scullin...