Word: augustas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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EARLE DOUCETTE Augusta...
Sicily is really formidable. It has a naval base at Messina which can take vessels up to heavy cruisers, and submarine bases at Palermo, Augusta, Syracuse. It has been a Stuka base since 1941, with great dive-bomber fields at Catania on the east and Comiso on the southeast. It now has between 15 and 20 well dispersed air establishments, all good, all heavily fortified...
Onward with the Arts. Basis of its gaudy plot was that as a beginner in the ring Beau Jack, the illiterate former Augusta Golf Club bootblack, had once sparred with Armstrong. Master Armstrong proposed to give Pupil Jack another boxing lesson. Purred Armstrong: "I can't forget the look of ... adoration in his eyes when he [first] saw me. . . . Just like my little daughter...
...From Augusta, Me. to Sacramento, Calif. almost all Legislatures had passed resolutions in favor of doing their work speedily and going home. Last week the Indianapolis News heaped scorn on the Indiana Legislature: "With utter fearlessness the Legislature at last is getting around to the business of doing something final and remedial about the bullfrog crisis. In the process of enactment also are war measures dealing with the mussel, the raccoon and the migratory tomcat...
...last week that military successes in Russia and North Africa appeared to have "set the stage" for an early meeting between President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill or Anthony Eden. Roosevelt and Churchill have conferred in person three times during World War II: on Aug. 14, 1941, aboard the U.S.S. Augusta in Argentia Bay, Newfoundland, they signed the Atlantic Charter; in the latter part of December 1941, at the White House, they organized the U.S.-G.B. War Council; in June 1942 they planned the North African campaign...