Word: maneuverable
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An atmosphere of secrecy hung over Norfolk Navy Yard last week. At rest there was the battleship Utah, silent, crewless. Aboard her were many work men, but no hammers resounded, no chips flew as they went , silently about their tasks. Skilled electricians and radio experts superintended every move of the...
French Maneuvers. All this time Emile Moreau of the Bank of France sat at his end of the table smiling amiably, saying very little. But Wall Street suddenly perceived a curious maneuver which the Bank of France has been executing in New York. Ever since June 20 when the Hoover...
One year Zenzinov went with the village hunters on their annual wild-goose chase to the Arctic Ocean. In the summer when they are moulting, wild geese cannot fly. Siberian goose-hunters surround a moulting flock in their canoes, maneuver them into a low enclosure on the land, jump in...
First problem of the maneuver was its concentration which took place without serious mishap, in spite of dirty flying weather. Some bombers from the West were held up, and at Boiling Field (Washington, D. C.) the pilots watched a grey sky, chafed at delay. Finally three planes started off. An...
¶ In a tensely quiet session saw frail Laborite Philip Snowden cow the entire phalanx of Conservative M. P.'s. The Chancellor demanded that his radical proposal for a levy of nearly % on the capital value of land (TIME, May 4) be included in the Finance Bill this year, although...