Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third baseman Bill Lutz each played their last game for the Crimson Saturday, for the duration at any rate. "The Baz" is a veteran of last year's Varsity, while Lutz broke into the lineup this year. Both are headed for the Midshipmen's School at Columbia University. Apart from these two losses, the nine is expected to remain intact for the summer season...
...Lost Man. One day a London newspaper broke into Professor Sakimura's seclusion, broke apart his life with a lurid account of his turnabout. Stung into face-saving fury, Japanese and Nazi agents insulted, browbeat, threatened him. They said that 25 of the professor's friends had been seized in Germany as hostages for his return. They brought ten friends to Stockholm to make personal appeals. They arrested his wife in Holland, showed him a letter from her urging his return lest she suffer Gestapo tortures...
...tactical surprise among German front-line troops were greater than anyone had hoped. By week's end the Allies had taken 6,000 Axis prisoners. Considering the proved military quality of the German outfits, it was a fat bag, indicated that some divisions may have been shot apart so badly that they could no longer function as units...
...roar could be heard for several miles, as huge cakes of ice broke apart, flapped up, stood on edge, ground into each other, crashed and thundered. Most of the 300 citizens (mostly Indians) of Nenana, Alaska, made for the river, to watch a fragile candy-striped tripod anchored in the ice. There was $125,000 riding on that little pole, in bets from soldiers and sourdoughs all over Alaska...
...drove the pigs and chickens out of the house, went to work without instruments or medicines. For antiseptic he used salt water. Bandages were washed in a creek, re-used until they fell apart. His instruments: a carpenter's hammer, a hack saw, chisels. ("In fractures we hammered house nails through bones. ... To chip away the bone we used an ordinary chisel...