Word: squadronal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University polo team will meet Yale in the semi-final round of the intercollegiate championship Class B tournament of the U. S. Indoor Polo Association, at the Squadron A Armory in Brooklyn tonight at 8.30 o'clock. With its victory over the Eased Troop trio, rep-resenting the New Jersey circuit, last Wednesday night, the Crimson team climbed into the semi-finals to face Yale who has defeated Squadron A, representing the New York circuit...
Even the King was perturbed. He called the First Lord of the Admiralty, William Clive Bridgeman, to Buckingham Palace and asked for details. Meanwhile the British public was flabbergasted by reports that there had been a "mutiny" aboard H. M. S. Royal Oak, Flagship of the First Battle Squadron of the British Mediterranean Fleet...
...presiding Rear Admiral of the Squadron, Bernard St. G. Collars...
...bold experiment in giant aircraft, the Inflexible had a successful test flight at the Royal Air Force airdrome at Martlesham Heath, some 75 miles northeast of London. Capable of carrying 20 persons, the ship was taken up by Squadron Leader J. Noakes and one mechanic, each wearing a parachute strapped to his back. The Inflexible has a wing spread of 150 feet and weighs fifteen tons-the world's largest all-metal monoplane. Built on the Air Ministry's orders, her purpose is a secret...
Just a month ago the above optimistic information was considered so authentic that it formed the nub of a report to the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee cabled by Rear Admiral David F. Sellers, commanding the U. S. special service squadron in Nicaragua. At the same time a prominent Marine field commander in Nicaragua, Major Archibald Young, was quoted as saying that the greatest difficulty encountered by his men was from wood ticks & fleas...