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Outstanding among the photographs which were displayed under glass and on the walls are large pictures of the principal warships of each period in Naval evolution. all pictures were accompanied by captions describing the process of Naval growth.
This display, one of the few complete collections of that period when the Navy swung from wood to steel to the modern dreadnaught, portrays Naval evolution from 1883, the year in which the first four steel vessels were authorized, through 1917, the year in which the United States Navy entered...
The gradual evolution of the system has seen the case develop from short and simple problems to larger, more complicated proportion. With this increase in size and complexity has come an improvement in accuracy and completeness. Sometimes, however, there is too much material to be covered in an hour; hence...
Ornithologist Baker's interest in cuckoos began rather dramatically. "I was a very small boy," he writes, "when I found my first Cuckoo's egg in a Hedge-Sparrow's nest in a Norfolk lane. [It was] a red letter day which synchronized with my first attempt...
The effect of the war is a matter of guesswork since as yet there is no concrete evidence of improvement. Germany seems to musically as well as politically bankrupt. On our side, we can't expect war itself to create any radically new values, because it never has been much...