Word: maneuverable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sweeping out of Cristobal Harbor, the U. S. Fleet started on a dash for Culebra, one of the Virgin Islands. Having completed its joint war games with the Army, which determined the weakness of the Panama Canal defense, the Navy is now intent on its own maneuvers. The object of...
The commander had remained in touch with a naval station until 15 minutes before the disaster, when he signaled that he was drawing up his wireless aerial. Presumably the ship was struck before the completion of the maneuver. With its huge metal structure, a rigid dirigible is like a giant...
Not knowing just what to do, the girl betakes herself abroad to her mother. The maneuver proves to be illadvised. Her mother is in no sense qualified to give moral aid and comfort. She is magnificently free from morality. While Joyce was still a child, the mother had run away...
At Yale the situation is slightly complicated. President Angell attempted to make the Student Council take up the problem of undergraduate drinking, but his maneuver met with unfortunate results. In addressing the freshman class he announced that expulsion would follow the defection of any violation of the rule forbidding liquor...
Then Mr. Mellon asked the country : " Which will you have-tax cut or bonus ? " " Tax cut! " shouted the business man. " Bonus! " shouted the American Legion in a voice that was large before but now seemed small by comparison. It behooved politicians to about face. The maneuver was delicate.