Word: seas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...neutrality were, for herself, economically gainful; but they were in no sense morally valuable. It was, moreover, obvious that the situation in Europe would not permit either America or any other neutral permanently to profit by the misfortunes of her neighbors. No nation which, like Great Britain, has cultivated sea-power, can afford to sacrifice its content to the clamour of neutral exporters. That will mean initiative on both sides and, if as with Germany, initiative is translated into outrage, the inevitable consequences will be war. From this aspect, at least, America has nothing to gain by insisting upon...
...there in France that he performed services for the Allies in connection with the War which were of incalculable value. An expert on sound, he was asked by the French Government to experiment with sounding devices. In this connection, he made experimental flights in aeroplanes and went below the sea on a French submarine. He also invented a most successful sounding device for locating artillery, which has been used to a large extent by the Allied Armies with excellent results...
Professor Kennelly's talks will be on the following subjects: 1. War-Construction Engineering. 2. Ship and Marine Engineering. Submarines and Their Detection. Camouflage at Sea. 3. Military Roads and Road Vehicles, Automobiles, Locomotives, Tanks, etc. 4. Aeronautic Engineering. Zeppelins, Dirigibles, Captive Baloons, Airplanes, Aerial Camouflage. 5. Airplane Engineering. Aerial Photography. 6. Radio Engineering. Signals and Communication. 7. Ordnance and Engineering. Guns and Gun Detection. Reglage. Searchlights and Illuminating Engineering. 8. Sanitary and Medical Engineering. Water, Ice, Gas, and Gas Defense. Protection against Disease...
...Henry Jones, of the University of Glasgow, again took the floor. He also dwelt on the value of the pure sciences, such as mathematics. To illustrate this he said that seven years ago he was on a commission to chart the currents at the bottom of the North Sea, an assignment apparently impractical. But in the war the British were able to place their mines, but ahead of the maps made by this commission, so that the mines drifted exactly where they were expected to. He spoke of the value of the classics, and said that although they were...
...great city and of all the steam craft in its great harbor began to blow.; to bellow and scream and roar and wail in unnumbered voices that presently fused into one and rolled down through hundreds of miles of streets into the open country and out to sea...