Word: uniforms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week's fourth commissioning was spectacular. Naval officers in dress uniform brightened the crowd of 600 special guests on the pier. From the quarter-deck Rear Admiral Louis McCoy Nulton read official orders putting the Constitution into active service. The colors and jack were hoisted, the first watch set. Command of the vessel was turned over to Commander Louis J. Gulliver...
Sketchy press reports made little attempt to picture the hatred, misery and ignorance seething in this shabby community, for by now it is an old story, uniform for all the country's bituminous fields...
...base our union upon the acceptance of Christianity as primarily a way of life and not upon uniformity of theological opinion or any uniform practice of ordinances," says the preamble of the new constitution, which recognizes "wide room" for differences in Biblical interpretation...
...President in Feldmarschal's uniform and spiked helmet, Chancellor Heinrich Brüning in his high hat. Defense Minister Wilhelm Groener in his high hat et omnes in their high hats were presently in position. A glorious sun beamed on Kiel. In the harbor a short distance away the entire German home fleet (27 ships) was drawn up ready to blaze a 21-gun salute. No one was supposed to know that the new ship would be christened Deutschland-named after the beloved Fatherland by HINDENBURG. Officially the sleek, rivetless war-boat, cunningly welded together by German genius...
...line is a block long all day. Six big gambling casinos are operating. About the only thing Las Vegas doesn't need is restaurants. We've got 57 now. There are seven drug stores and 50 groceries. But the town has only six policemen and none in uniform...