Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Fort Eustis, Va., to Fort Story, near Norfolk, Va., an armament train carried the 52nd Railway Artillery Regiment with 8-inch rifles, 12-inch mortars, ammunition cars. A battalion of the 12th Coast Artillery also mobilized at Fort Story together with submarine minelayers, a searchlight platoon, an ordnance company and weather men. Great 16-inch coast guns were unlimbered in their seaside pits and tilted at the far horizon. Then, as the attacking "fleet" steamed near in the defenders' fancy, shore guns of all sizes roared, bombs burst in midsea, aircraft towered and circled to observe and report...
...Pennsylvania would take the Lehigh Valley, the Chicago & Eastern Illinois or Chicago & Alton, trackage rights along Lake Erie, the Norfolk & Western, use of the Virginian...
...team was defeated by the Norfolk Country Club, 5 to 3, on Wednesday and Thursday. The last doubles match bad to be cut for lack of time...
Monday and Tuesday the team will play at Pinehurst in the annual North and South tournament. Wednesday and Thursday they will play at the Norfolk Country Club, and on Friday they will be at the Chevy Chase Club in Washington. Saturday the team will play at Annapolis and then return to Cambridge. The men making the trip are Captain B. A. Whitbeck '29, M. T. Hill '30, Arthur Ingraham Jr. '30, E. B. Ward '30, J. H. Appleton '29, C. B. Hamlen '29, R. M. Bennett '28, and Coach H. L. Cowles...
...Norfolk & Western will go to the Pennsylvania. 6) The Virginian will be split between the Norfolk & Western and the Van Sweringen group...