Word: torpedoed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Depth charges sank 37; fixed mines, 36; fights with enemy submarines, 20; engine trouble, 14; torpedo boats, destroyers and subchasers, 13; accidental ramming, 8; armed fishing craft, 6; airplane bombs, 6; and submarine nets, 6. Three were sunk by regular patrol vessels, 3 by armed auxiliaries, 2 by cruisers, 2 by artillery fire, 1 by a liner at the entrance to the British base at Scapa Flow...
...prohibition amendment; perhaps they laid in their supplies while the laying was good. But doesn't President Eliot realize that most people, from the poor man who can only afford a "hipper" of Rot Gut to the inventive genius who shoots his champagne across the border in a torpedo, are co-offenders with the "good society." Once more the umpire has rendered his decision, but with his back turned toward the play...