Word: augustas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt's face assumed a lecturer's look. This is what comes of thinking in banal phrases and banal thoughts, he said. There isn't any copy of the Atlantic Charter. The nearest thing would be the notes given to the radio operators of the U.S.S. Augusta, and H.M.S. Prince of Wales* (aboard which Roosevelt and Churchill traveled to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in August, 1941). The agreement consisted of little scraps of handwriting. Some of it was the President's, some Mr. Churchill's, some Sir Alexander Cadogan's, some Sumner Welles...
Lieutenant Forte, who served on the heavy cruiser Augusta, is confident that we will not make the same mistake of scrapping American naval might after this war. "In peacetime you don't need as many men as in war; In fact you could probably slice off almost three quarters of your officers now needed to man all battle stations...
George Bernard Shaw celebrated his 88th birthday with advice on How to Care for Babies. In the London Times he compared the late Kaiserin Augusta's model Berlin nursery with shanty homes in Ireland's Connemara: "Under the ideal Berlin conditions the infants died like flies while in Connemara there was no [infant] mortality rate because children never died there. . . . The difference was due to the fact that in Berlin the nurses tidied up the children's beds and fed and took their temperatures and weighed and measured them very efficiently . . . whereas in Connemara the mother hugged...
...squadron's time came on Oct. 31, 1943 when it swept around the Solomons bastion at Bougainville (at 31 knots) whipped close inshore and shot up Jap airfields one after the other while Marines stormed ashore at Empress Augusta Bay. Near the end of the job a Jap task force turned up. Burke, who had made a 31-knot run to refuel, was back on the job. The Little Beavers led their task force in sinking a cruiser and four destroyers that day. Navymen had never seen anything like the fury and deadly precision of the Little Beavers...
High-Strung. In Augusta, Me., Ralph E. Mosher, who won the nomination for state senator on both party tickets, reported his total campaign expenses: 18?, including 10? for a beer to "relax tension...