Construction
The first US Navy ship named for Commodore David Conner (1792–1856), Conner was launched 21 August 1917 by William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sponsored by Miss E. Diederich, and commissioned 12 January 1918, Commander A. G. Howe in command.
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Famous quotes containing the word construction:
“No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.”
—Gus Van Sant, U.S. screenwriter and director, and Dan Yost. Bob Hughes (Matt Dillon)
“No real “vital” character in fiction is altogether a conscious construction of the author. On the contrary, it may be a sort of parasitic growth upon the author’s personality, developing by internal necessity as much as by external addition.”
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“There’s no art
To find the mind’s construction in the face.”
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