Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where is that common sense of which we Americans were once so proud? So they want a raise because the cost of living has risen; but isn't it evident to even the most selfish that any increase in consumer purchasing power must necessarily add still more to that cost of living? Or maybe the true fact underlying this "greatest" war effort is the very simple fact that everyone is out to get whatever he can from this unprecedented opportunity. With the aspects of inflation clearly in view, our selfish, bigoted "patriots" are willing to risk chaos and defeat...
...add to her difficulties, Miss Albert claims that Navy men have lost interest. "Officers aren't as lonely as they're supposed to be, for many of them are already married, and the others are not shy." And the bashful, retiring one- or two-stripers have been guests of wealthy Bostonians at their seashore homes, thus further complicating the already involved date problem...
There is Bert Stiff. Stiff is the devastating fullback who did more against last year's formidable Harvard line than any other man, all year long. Add another year of practice and growth, and there emerges one of the top bucking backs around...
...letter from Alaska. "It's a real thrill to hook into one of these 30 pound salmon" and to admit that "we hope to be moved before winter sets in." Lost the "News" get the wrong impression of what life in the army is however, the writer hastens to add that "of course much can't be said...
...major military and naval units around Harvard; at present it makes deliveries to the naval officers in the Yard; today it extends to the armed services at the Business School; with the coming of the third class to the Army Chaplains School in the next two weeks, it will add this training center of military ministers to its subscribers...