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Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, approached as near as duty permitted to the razed Navy Arsenal at Dover, N. J., where a few capricious shells were still frisking. Two investigations are under way: one to consider Government damages; one, civilian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABINET: Disunited Doings | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

...rather charming--far more so than the literary occupant of the brass bed found her book. Butterfly amours on damasque lawns beneath fragile moons, center stage, are likely to pall at times, especially when there are David Copperfields to visit with as the London Mail swings down the Dover Road...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 1/14/1926 | See Source »

...Delaware Bay, an oyster sucked a little fish into his maw. The fish fed himself fat upon the other fish the oyster ate. One day, grown bigger, he ate the oyster. Last week in Dover, Del., the oyster shell was opened by one Mrs. I. Paul Jones. Out fell the fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fish v. Oyster | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

...airplane flying from Paris to London were six ducks. While the plane sped at 100 miles an hour over the Straits of Dover, one duck laid an egg. Alighting at Croyden, the pilot had the egg boiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Janitress | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

...Third Story: "We crossed to Boulogne. . . .The next evening we were taken back from Calais to Dover. . . .Having always been immune from seasickness ... I found myself thinking of mines and wondering what the explosion and shock would be like. When we all three were safely seated in the railway train at Dover, the following interchange of experiences took place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grey's Book | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

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