Word: squadronal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...close enough, the whole Stadium would be darkened by its shadow, for two football fields laid end to end would not equal its 720 feet of length. Should it approach on a mission of destruction, it could open fire with a battery of artillery. And should a defending airplane squadron seek to rise over it and destroy it with bombs, the dirigible would send out five full-sized planes, carried underneath the bag and launched from built-in runways. Having left the Stadium, the ship could then travel to any European capital and return without having to refuel. It could...
...Shiny boots were re-shined, polished buttons re-polished, cleaned rifles re-cleaned last week at Fort Meade, Army post. For there was stationed the First Squadron of the Fourth Cavalry, and from that squadron, announced Major General Harry A. Smith, Commander of the Seventh Corps Army Area, Omaha, was to be chosen the presidential guard which will look after the safety of the President during his summer stay in the Black Hills...
...your squadron should call yourselves pirates of Wall Street, because against all morality and justice, you trample on the honor of a weak people, solely obeying Kellogg's orders in behalf of a group of Jewish bankers located in New York, where the Statue of Liberty stands...
Twenty-one years ago a robust Sergeant in Squadron A, New York City National Guard, was riding through Rock Creek Park, Washington, D. C. Suddenly he heard the familiar voice of Elihu Root, then Secretary of State, saying: "By order of the Secretary of War, Sergeant Stimson will report at once, in person, to the President of the United States." On the other side of Rock Creek he saw Secretary Root and President Roosevelt. Plunging into the rain-swollen, swift-flowing stream, he urged his horse across, arrived wet, triumphant. His summons was merely a Rooseveltian method of inviting...
...four planes formed a diamond over the landing field at Palomar. Major Dargue, piloting the New York at the head of the squadron, signaled to break up close formation for landing. Captain Woolsey, in the Detroit in number three position, and the New York, number two, turned out simultaneously, Woolsey to the left, Dargue to the right. The New York* continued as did the St. Louis, slightly higher and to the rear. The Detroit turned upward and away from the New York several hundred feet; then turned back to the right and went into a slight dive...