Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...eight-line dispatch from New York brings the news that twenty vessels of the Navy's Suicide Squadron" have reached that port. For over two years they have spent their days and nights in foreign waters sweeping the seas of more than fifty thousand mines that the commerce of the world might pass in safety. This was the work that called for perhaps the sheerest courage of the war. Ploughing undramatically through the dangerous, fog-swept North Sea, constantly in danger of being wiped out by the deadly, unseen mine or the cowardly submarine, they made it possible...
...President, to prepare for him periodic reports on the war activities of the Government. From the opening of this work Dean Gay had it in charge as Director. Secondary duties of the Central Bureau were the correlation of statistical work of all government units, together with collection and dispatch of economic data required by the American delegates at the Peace Conference...
According to an unofficial Central News dispatch received late last night Aviator Harry Hawker and his pilot, Commander Grieve, had been picked up in safety off the Irish coast late in the afternoon. This report had not been confirmed, but was the latest that had been received at the hour of going to press...
...Special Dispatch to the CRIMSON...
...good reading depends on gifts only. Current magazines, as well as readable books, are especially desired. Members of the University are requested to give whatever they can spare either to the Phillips Brooks House clothing collectors or to Dr. C. O. S. Mawson, of the A. L. A. Overseas Dispatch Office, in the basement of Widener Library...