Word: turreted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next the fleet steams to the southern drill grounds for target practice. Firing five-inchers, gun crews from Harvard will compete with turret marksmen from Yale, Northwestern, and Georgia Tech...
...completely demolished, but no one was seriously injured, a fact which was attributed to the turret...
...Hays office. As entertainment, it ranks in between. The screen play by John Van Druten & S. N. Behrman is literate but logy; John Stahl's direction is stately but pedestrian; Myrna Loy behaves as though she missed The Thin Man, and not even mutton chop whiskers and a turret-top collar can make Clark Gable look, sound or act like the uncrowned King of Ireland...
...September 1914 the appendix of Prince Albert was removed, in 1917 he was operated upon for acute duodenal ulcer. Despite these gastric difficulties, the Battle of Jutland found him in the "A" turret of H.M.S. Collingwood as that ship went into action. During the bombardment he coolly made hot cocoa for his fellow officers...
...Rear Admiral Harris Laning to make a little speech. Up from Washington came British Captain F. C. Bradley, R. N. to make another. These seadogs found no technical flaw in Soldier Clegg's work, for Soldier Clegg had with great accuracy noted on the spot every shell splash, turret and barbette...