Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commander Mabie said General Lee was comparable to "an aviator who would put water in the gas tank of a transatlantic plane...
Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt had ample excuse to indulge, last week, in an honest, becoming sailor's blush. He will shortly have assigned to him as his flagship the new British post-Washington Treaty cruiser Suffolk. Strictly speaking the Suffolk, when empty of stores, water, fuel and ammunition, just comes within the Treaty limitation of 10,000 tons. But in the building of the Suffolk thousands of parts have been made of aluminum, where use of a heavier metal would have been standard practice. Judged from the standpoint of fighting strength, the 10,000-ton Suffolk probably...
...Lisbon, Portugal, one Captain Franz Romer got into a rubber-covered canvas boat, 20 feet long. In it were 55 gallons of water, 590 pounds of food, and some oars. Captain Romer sat down, sniffed the air and started to row across the Atlantic Ocean, to Manhattan...
...blister playing golf it means that the player is just learning the game or that he has not played for a long time. Walter Hagen, after one day's practice in England where he had gone to play Archie Compston a match for $3,750, got a big water blister on the pad of flesh at the base of the little finger of his right hand. One English sports writer said that the match ought to be postponed. Hagen wanted it postponed himself. He explained that he had come all the way from Los Angeles in twelve days...
...Freshman 150-pound crews rowed a mile from the Union Boathouse to the Harvard Bridge, the Harvard first year men winning by a length in a sprint in the last 100 yards. The race was rowed in very rough water, the Crimson eight completing the distance in five minutes 24 seconds...