Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon Admiral Kinkaid's PT boats will be using Talasea harbor as a base. Meanwhile Kinkaid's navy, composed mostly of small craft, roams the Bismarck Sea at will, bears down with flaming guns to silence Jap shore batteries. Even PTs serve prominently in such activities. MacArthur described...
Sometimes the "cheechakos" (tenderfoot white men) have to fight their way to their nearby stations through furious blizzards. Wolves and bears prowl the air strips and sniff around the doors.
Most successful were Drs. James A. Baker and Malcolm S. Ferguson of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Princeton, who raised a group of "axenic" Mexican platyfish (Platypoecttus maculatus) from birth to full maturity.* The platyfish, not an egg-layer, bears live young. To make sure that their baby platyfish...
Explained Major Kenneth H. Donnelly, postal officer of the Sixth Service Command: lipstick smears when it passes through V-mail photographic equipment, ruins the letter that bears it, and others that follow. The automatic feeder must be stopped and cleaned after every passing of "the scourge."
There has come to my notice a report in your January 18 issue of a talk which I gave to a group of students at Lowell House on January 14. Yet I must ask myself whether your good faith was not taken by surprise when you were induced to report...