Word: went
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Admiral Fiske suggested that torpedoes be shot from airplanes, was ignored, went ahead on his own, a year later took out a patent. Though the British adopted a similar device during the War, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels twice turned down the Fiske invention. In 1921 Rear-Admiral Fiske, retired, saw a photograph of a U. S. Navy plane dropping a torpedo. Said he: "It was clear to me that the Government had deliberately taken my patent...
While international statesmen discussed reducing the world's armaments, the sworn defenders of the U. S. went dutifully ahead last week making weapons...
Cruisers Ordered. Quietly the Navy awarded construction contracts for five cruisers as the first third of the ship replacement program authorized by Congress last winter. Three contracts went to Navy yards, two to private plants. Shortly the U. S. will have 130,000 tons of cruisers building simultaneously...
...indisputable decision for Schmeling pleased nearly everyone except a lot of Uzcudun's wood-chopping countrymen who went down from their Pyrenean villages to Biarritz and bet their savings that he would...
Last week celebrating graduates (presumably) tied a rope around his neck, yanked, and with Miltonic grandeur down he fell. So firm was his stance that his pedestal went over with him; so sturdy his physique that no portion of it broke...