Word: underlay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This underlay the sensational proposal, quickly adopted, that the navies of the Americas patrol their seas in a defined "security belt" around all of the Hemisphere but Canada. With the aid of air fleets the ships would police the territorial waters to a distance averaging 300 miles offshore, would bar all European submarines, allow belligerents' surface warships only the legal 24 hours' entry...
...Union a new class had its first contact with the man whose vigor has wrought many changes in the college within two short years, President Conant. The subject of his speech "independent thinking" is one which has seen frequent treatment at Harvard but the sincerity and earnestness which underlay his remarks disclose with clarity the manner of man that occupied the President's office...