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[[red underline]] until by beginning of 1919 [[/red underline]] they will average about [[red underline]] one ship every 24 hours![[/red underline]] Afterwards took tug boat that brought the members of [[red underline]] Naval Consulting Board [[/red underline]] to N.Y. Ship building Co. also situated on the Delaware near Camden.  There saw [[red underline]] dreadnoughts [[/red underline]] under construction (the Idaho) [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] in other immense ship yards also a succession of smaller boats, torpedo destroyers. [[red underline]] Everybody busy [[/red underline]] and every thing going on uninterruptedly as driven by an unseen force behind - the will to stop Germany in her nefarious career. [[red underline]] If ever I doubted about the outcome of the war [[/red underline]] I am more and more convinced that the entrance of the United 

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States [[strikethrough]] has mens [[/strikethrough]] and all the growing energy behind her has [[red underline]] made the Allies invincible. [[/red underline]]  I feel much comforted at the thought. I wish [[red underline]] George [[/red underline]] and all those [[red underline]] other brave young [[/red underline]] men there in Europe [[red underline]] could see this sight [[/underlined]] and feel encouraged and [[strikethrough]] could [[/strikethrough]] inspired by it.  
July 13.  Here all day with [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] Nin [[/strikethrough]] and happy. [[red underline]] Nina [[/red underline]] with her irritating expression and behavior has left for the Adirondacks.  [[strikethrough]] Afterno [[/strikethrough]] Evening Mr. [[red underline]] Peet [[/red underline]] and Dr. [[red underline]] Pupin [[/red underline]] here for supper.  [[red underline]] Clairette [[/red underline]] also here.  
July 14 (Sunday)  Home all day.  Visit of Lieutenant [[red underline]] Paternot [[/red underline]] who stayed for supper.  [[red underline]] Clairette [[/red underline]] here too.
July 15  Home all day.  Papers announce new [[red underline]] drive of Germans on Western Front. New anxious [[/red underline]]