Word: armor
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...Battle cruisers differ from battleships principally in that they sacrifice a certain degree of armor protection for greater speed. They are much larger and more heavily armed than scout cruisers...
...suffer was the New Jersey. The attack began at 8.52 a.m. Flying at 10,000 feet, a group of aeroplanes dropped 600-lb. bombs. Later from 6,000 feet, several 2,000-lb. bombs were loosed. Most of the bombs hit alongside as was intended, for the deck armor was considered impermeable to the bombs dropped...
...Genouilhac armor for man and horse, worn by Louis XII's master of artillery and his mount in 1527, has been added to the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, and mounted on a model of the famous horse in Verrocchio's equestrian statue of Bartolommeo Colleone, the Venetian...
...Armor protection: Colorado and Mutzu about the same; Hood much lighter...
...Money Crusade. In the Middle Ages knights in armor went on crusades to recover to Christianity the holy places in Jerusalem. Today the British, having at last put Jerusalem under Christian oversight, are appealing to all Christians to be knights of the open purse, and give liberally toward the preservation of the holy places for which the older crusaders fought. The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem has, since the year 328 A. D., kept intact many of the sacred buildings and sites of Palestine. Most of the income of this little patriarchate came from Russia. This support is now almost...