 | 1899 - 998 pages
...Channel Squadron after he has spent " a blissful fortnight " among the battleships and cruisers. " When you have been shown lovingly over a torpedo by...meaning and a reality for you to the end of your days." To find out how the men live who are doing the world's work and how they do it — whether the instrument... | |
 | United States - 1899 - 1004 pages
...Channel Squadron after he has spent " a blissful fortnight " among the battleships and cruisers. " When you have been shown lovingly over a torpedo by...meaning and a reality for you to the end of your days." To find out how the men live who are doing the world's work and how they do it — whether the instrument... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1907 - 818 pages
...reports of conversations with superiors retailed by a delinquent Marine. 262 Fire and collision drill, general quarters and the like take on new meaning...meaning and a reality for you to the end of your days. Next time you see the 'blue' ashore you do not stare unintelligently. You have watched him on his native... | |
 | Herbert C. Fyfe - Submarine warfare - 1907 - 350 pages
..." srUTYEN KUYVII CHAPTER XV THE WHITEHEAD TORPEDO — " THE MOST WONDERFUL MACHINE IN THE WORLD " " When you have been shown lovingly over a torpedo by...meaning and a reality for you to the end of your days." — RUDTARD KIPLING. "The next great naval war will bestow upon the torpedo and its users a halo of... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1913 - 412 pages
...reports of conversations with superiors retailed by a delinquent Marine. 262 Fire and collision drill, general quarters and the like take on new meaning...meaning and a reality for you to the end of your days. Next tune you see the 'blue' ashore you do not stare unintelligently. You have watched him on his native... | |
 | 1899 - 526 pages
...Channel Squadron after he has spent " a blissful fortnight " among the battleships and cruisers. " When you have been shown lovingly over a torpedo by...meaning and a reality for you to the end of your days." To find out how the men live who are doing the world's work and how they do it — whether the instrument... | |
 | 1944 - 786 pages
...for once he wrote these lines which capture, I believe, all the intensity of a torpedoman's feelings: When you have been shown lovingly over a torpedo by...meaning and a reality for you to the end of your days. A submarine torpedoman lives in close union with his torpedoes. He bunks with them; he babies them,... | |
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Fire and collision drill, general quarters and the like take on new meaning when they are translated for you, once by the Head who orders them and again by the tail who carry them out. When you have been shown lovingly over a torpedo by an artificer skilled... 