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Suggest you place copy International Code of Signals (Hydrographic Office Publication No. 87) on your reference files to avoid further errors in reporting the historical accomplishments of the U.S.S. Omaha...
Cecil Brown parted reluctantly from a brand-new pair of shoes, jumped into the oily water and swam hard to avoid the down-draught of the huge vessel as she turned on her beam ends, lifted her ugly stern underparts, and sank. From the water he saw the Wales, torpedoed and afire, slowly go down...
...Council will be devoted directly to using the historical evidence of the past 20 years to avoid the debacle of Versailles...
What we must avoid is the failure of the League system. That is something definite and concrete that we can study and understand. On the basis of this study we can work out the outlines of the new conceptions that have to replace the obviously false principles of the last twenty years. More specifically we have to consider such questions as: What are we going to do with Japan when we beat her?--rule her as a British-American colony, or acknowledge that she has certain rights, the denial of which has caused this attempt to throw out Western powers...
...this policy is not to encourage Juniors and Seniors or other men not on the Dean's List to extend the Christmas recess and to get away from Cambridge, but rather to permit greater freedom to the student in arranging his work while in Cambridge and also to avoid a complicated system of taking attendance in advanced courses at the time of vacations. The plan is in keeping with the recent tendency in the direction of placing students in the upper two years more largely on their own responsibility...