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By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.
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By the time they reach that age, however, Aristotle no longer worries about the evil influence of comedies.
By the time he was under the covers he had forgotten about seeing Kate.
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By this time there is little doubt but what election plans were complete.
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By the time of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, TBDs were " large, swift, and powerfully armed torpedo boats designed to destroy other torpedo boats.
By 1910 the steam-driven displacement ( that is, not hydroplaning ) torpedo boat had become redundant as a separate type.
By the turn of the 20th century, the term no longer included mines and booby-traps as the navies of the world added submarines, torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers to their fleets.
By 1892 an entirely new class of warship, the torpedo boat destroyer ( TBDs ), was invented to counter them.
By World War II torpedo boats were seriously hampered by higher fleet speeds ; although they still had a speed advantage, they could only catch the larger ships by running at very high speeds over very short distances, as demonstrated in the Channel Dash.
By war's end, more of the Elco boats were built than any other type of motor torpedo boat ( 326 of their boats were built ).
By this point, Cunningham's forces, which had been attempting to join up with Pridham-Wippell's, had launched a sortie of Fairey Albacore torpedo bombers from HMS Formidable at 09: 38.
By mid-October, the German North Sea Group around Spain consisted of the pocket battleships Deutschland and Admiral Scheer, the light cruiser Köln and four torpedo boats.
By 3 March, the convoy was within range of the air base at Milne Bay, and eight Bristol Beaufort torpedo bombers from No. 100 Squadron RAAF took off from there.
By this time, the Soviets had created formations and units of the torpedo and bomb aviation.
By this late stage of the war, only two destroyers ( Regina Maria and Mărășești ), two gunboats ( Dumitrescu and Ghiculescu ), one minelayer ( Amiral Murgescu ) and three motor torpedo boats were still operational.
By keeping water from coming into contact with the surface of the body of the torpedo, drag is significantly reduced, allowing extremely high speeds.
By coincidence, on that same evening, the British liner sank in the Irish Sea after being struck by a torpedo.
By June 1941, it included 8 destroyers, 15 submarines, 2 torpedo boats, 7 patrol boats, 2 minesweepers, and 116 airplanes.
By replacing the nuclear warhead and removing the wire guidance systems, the torpedo could be reconfigured for unguided launch against surface targets.
By the end of World War II torpedo belts, much like many of the warships they protected, were rendered obsolete by the widespread use of aircraft, and guided missiles which attacked above the belt and a new generation of " smart ", deep-diving torpedoes ( such as the Mark 48 ) which are designed to detonate under a ship's keel and break its back.
By the summer of 1944 the airfield had evolved from a grass landing area with a few hangars to a four runway airfield with the infrastructure to house and operate three training squadrons using Barracuda torpedo bombers.
By the end of the war, the British human torpedo operations had earned their participants 20 medals and 16 men had been killed.

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