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beautiful weather. Just before breakfeast while on deck and nearing [[underlined in red]] Indian Head Proving [[/underlined in red]] grounds, [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined in red]] a big shell from [[/underlined in red]] one of the guns being tried dropped [[underlined in red]] in our direction, [[/underlined in red]] shortly afterwards Admiral [[underlined in red]] Benson [[/underlined in red]] exclaimed: [[underlined in red]] "Look there is another shell coming." [[/underlined in red]] and the shell struck the water about half a mile aft on starboard. He seemed rather disgusted at this act of carelessness.
Same cheerful spirit at breakfeast, anecdotes, stories scientific discussion in all of which [[underlined in red]] Daniels [[/underlined in red]] participated with great interest, [[underlined in red]] always cheerful, and ready to tell a story or making some witty remark and making us [[/underlined in red]] all feel much at ease. He is undoubdetly a very pleasant man to
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get along with and I am more and more convinced that [[underlined in red]] he is a man very much maligned by his political enemies [[/underlined in red]] or the enemies of the present administration [[underlined in red]] who have singled him out as the butt [[/underlined in red]] of their attacks.
There is a young [[strikethrough]] man ^[[officer]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[officer]] aboard [[underlined in red]] McCandless [[/underlined in red]] is his name, who is the [[underlined in red]] aide of Daniels, [[/underlined in red]] and whom at first I took merely as a clerk or secretary and who I hear now is a regular officer of the Navy a graduate of [[underlined in red]] Annapolis [[/underlined in red]] and who has also studied [[strikethrough]] at the U [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined in red]] engineering and chemistry [[/underlined in red]] at the [[underlined in red]] University of Colorado.[[/underlined in red]] He is an [[underlined in red]] unusually well informed [[/underlined in red]] and quick witted man, who has a very level head, extremely well posted on naval [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] [[matters?]] 
^[[on]] naval constrction, ordnance

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Instructions say to use the word 'underlined' in brackets when words are underlined in text. Seems appropriate because indicates past tense.