Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flashing Adams natators nosed out the Deacons on Tuesday by a score of 34-28. Not until the final event, when the Gold Coast relay team left their opponents in their foaming wake, was the meet decided. William I. Popper '37 was the outstanding performer, annexing the 50-yard and 100-yard free style for the victors...
...sleep and wake up again when H--comes in, suggests excursion into town. Pull myself together and a sprinkle of cold water on my face does wonders, and we go to Boston. H--is buying a Christmas present for his baby niece in Omaha. He picks out a wooly white cat, very gaga, with green wool eyes. The cat and H--and I stop for a milkshake, my half-eclipsed condition precluding more nocuous refreshment...
While the refueling went on, the President had three hours of fishless fishing in a whale boat. Then the swift voyage southward was resumed and the newshawks riding in the Indianapolis' wake racked their brains and filled the ether with radioed chit-chat about the President's initiation by Neptune's Court when crossing the Equator...
When a motorized military unit moves into the field, a complete repair unit follows not far behind to overhaul any piece of fouled equipment on the spot. Similarly, when a,battle fleet goes to sea the auxiliary service fleet that follows in its wake includes a repair ship ready to make repairs as best they can. The usefulness of modern repair ships is restricted since they can make only minor or temporary repairs on smaller craft. To correct such major difficulties on a capital ship as a broken propeller or rudder or a loosened plate below the waterline, the ship...
...Philadelphia indictment, while not entirely unexpected, had come with unusual speed in the wake of a flying squad of Congressional investigators. The case concerned the State's oldest (incorporated in 1807) and largest (assets of $132,000,000) guaranteed mortgage company, The Philadelphia Co. for Guaranteeing Mortgages, which collapsed in 1933 and is not to be confused with the venerable Pennsylvania Co. for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities. At the time Philadelphia Co. F. G. M. went under, its officials prepared the receivership petition, took it to the home of a Federal judge in Easton, Pa., secured appointment...