Word: shams
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...last week locked in a death grapple with the army of Mercia. Rain fell and fell until even Noah's contemporaries would have been convinced that there was going to be a flood. And finally after everyone had been soaked to the bone, the umpires decided that the sham battle had saved London for Mercia...
...settled down. They steamed ahead laying a course between Sardinia and Corsica, their lights glittered on the water, but on all the wide expanse of sea no other lights were visible. Yet ships, big and little, airplanes and dirigibles were speeding through the darkness about them. A week's sham battle at sea was in progress. The "Red" fleet based on Sardinia was to try to capture the southwestern coast of Italy. The "Blue" fleet based on Sicily will attempt to hold off the invaders. Premier Mussolini was too busy to be present...
...they were educational for all participants, against the value of which, however, must be balanced the expenditure of several millions of dollars. The navy and army both had a splendid outing, some experience in testing theories, and, despite the feeling aroused by the contest, unanimous pleasure in conducting the sham manoeuvres. The significance of aviation in modern warfare may have been brought out more emphatically than before, but surely this disclosure is searcely so new that it needs a whole fleet to test...
...cost much. The operations received tremendous publicity, the net result of which has been to keep the military forces unconsciously in the public mind, for the army and the navy are not less skillful in keeping themselves constantly before the public than they are in the actual details of sham battle...
...noisy neighborhood house. Boredom takes the place of quasi enthusiasm and the student struggles painfully and hopelessly for a while, only to let it all drop in the end. He knows then, as others do not know, that the whole shining structure of Social Service is founded on pitiful sham and sheer impracticability. David Worcester...