Word: battleships
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...Secretary Sirs: In TIME, Oct. 25, we see a photo of Frank Knox, "Secretary of the biggest navy the world has ever seen," in a very unseamanlike pose-holding on to keep his balance. He was aboard a battleship, which rolls slowly, and this one was in a harbor. I'm afraid our ubiquitous Secretary would need both hands and then some to stay erect on my little ship which "will pitch on wet grass...
...band and numerous choristers through a particularly unpleasant stretch of sub-operatic Africorn about the walls of Jericho. Eleanor Powell, who is the best female tap dancer on tap, proves it in a rope dance, a modified hula and a rampant straight number on a milk-white stage battleship. But Red Skelton is the best...
...battleship or destroyer man where he has been operating and the answer is the Aleutians or the South Pacific, as the case may be; ask a submariner (pronounced submariner in the service) and the casual answer is: "The Empire." The Empire is Japan. Outside of the crews of some B-25s, who did not linger, no other U.S. fighting men have ventured into that area. The submariner regards it as his routine theater of operations...
...Before Saturday's game, they had lost to the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy 7 to 1 and tied the squad 3 to 3; to Worcester Polytechnic Institute they lost 7 to 2; and in their final fray of last term the sailors of the French battleship Richelieu were victorious...
...soccer squad suffered no serious losses during the vacation period and all the mainstays of the team that fought the sailors of the French battleship Richelieu are back. The stars of that game, including Julio Ortega, and Herb Allen...