Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston's influx of sailors arriving for Navy Day will be swelled tomorrow when a powerful team from the New London Submarine Base takes the field against the underdog Crimson at 2:30 o'clock in Harvard Stadium...
Deposed Dragon. First he moved against China's strong war lord, one-eyed General Lung Yun, the rascally "old dragon" of Yunnan. By gun and guile, Lung had ruled that strategic southwestern province of China since 1927. His capital, Kunming, was the biggest U.S. air base in the country, and during the war he had played host to many a U.S. officer and touring bigwig. Last week Chiang deposed the "old dragon" of Yunnan, completing a political conquest of the vast western hinterland...
...Montgomery, according to a now-it-can-be-told story, bamboozled Axis spies with a double, Lieut. Clifton James, peacetime actor. The double made a noisy departure for Africa, got a big official welcome in Algiers, set the spies to reporting the Marshal's absence from his invasion base just before Dday...
Against Passeau's sinkers and sliders, nary a Tiger reached second base. For the first time in 39 years, the World Series had a one-hitter. Score: Chicago 3, Detroit...
...time during the struggle did it absorb more than two-fifths of our total national output." At first glance, the transition to peace looked just as good. In his second "Report on Progress of Reconversion," Krug announced that August civilian production was up to 51% of the average month base period of 1939, that in December it should reach 153%, by next June...