Word: diversion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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For several days minesweepers searched vainly for the sunken vessel, plowed futilely back and forth through choppy rising seas. The Admiralty sent out divers and ships equipped with a recently and secretly developed instrument for magnetically detecting sunken masses of iron. The sea bottom was explored by every possible means...
Instantly, the fires of ambition died, and after running the gauntlet across Harvard Square and finding no bones broken, I considered the afternoon's work sufficient. Heaving a sigh for the great open streets of Louisville where Fords are Fords, not battering rams, and freshmen are not prospective hospital patients...
Finally, although the seas were still troublesome, the two giant cranes Monarch and Century were brought to the spot and succeeded in catching the ends of the slings which the divers had adjusted under the S-51's hull. Together, with a combined lifting capacity of 350 tons, they...
Frederick E. Techemaker of Indianapolis, who lost twin sons on the S-51, said: "I am proud that my sons were serving their country when they died. I think the Navy is the finest possible life for travel." any young man who wishes to Later the engine room hatch was...
*The divers worked at the depth of 127 ft. in great difficulties. They had to be careful not to entangle their own ropes, wires, and air hose in the antennae, which would have been fatal. An hour was all they could stay down at a time. Exploring in the interior...