Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earth Charge. Since 1917 scientists have known that the earth's surface is charged with negative electricity, but no one knew for sure what keeps it charged. In areas of fair weather, an electric current flows between the earth and the air in a direction which would tend to...
Pressed into troopship service in World War I, she used her speed (23 knots) to zigzag alone through submarine-infested waters. She also performed yeoman service in World War II, carrying 384,586 servicemen to & from battle. Never once was the Aquitania, known as "Grannie," fired on. Between wars she...
"Ashamed by All This." Ingrid and Rossellini made it plain that they would be married as soon as she gets a divorce from her husband. "Unfortunately," explained Ingrid, "there have been some difficulties; otherwise I would already be Roberto's wife." Added the director: "Ingrid explained things quite clearly...
The 1st U.S. Marine Division was the first U.S. division to take the offensive in War II. It went into the boondocks as a brigade in the fall of 1940 and did not come out until it licked the Japanese at Guadalcanal two years later. Between times the division learned...
Between crises on Guadalcanal the division amused itself with a parody (to the tune of Bless 'em All):