Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instructor's chair at Albright College, Myerstown, Pennsylvania. Regarded by the students at the Chaplain School as the best teacher on the staff, he brings to his teaching and administration a rich fund of experience gained through two decades of peace-time service in this country and in the Canal Zone, as well as in a variety of assignments since the present emergency began, including tours as Post Chaplain at sprawling Chanute Field, III., division chaplain of the Sixth Motorized Division, corps chaplain of the Sixth Army Corps, and Chaplain of the New York Port of. Embarkation at Brooklyn. Like...
...these languages so that they might peek into one of the many thousands of volumes therein. These people, their friends call them curators, also know something about comparative zoology, and they delight in tracking down crustaecea, plodding through the pisces, and going "with gun and camera through the Alimentary Canal." Such bliss can only be found at the Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...gamble Hitler has thrown many of his still vast resources. From the inland industrial centers of the Ruhr he can spawn his raiders and send them across the world. The biggest craft are launched into the Baltic and the North Sea. Smaller craft can be floated through river and canal arteries across the face of France, spewed out into the English Channel through the Seine, into the Mediterranean through the Saone-Rhone Rivers, into the Bay of Biscay through the Loire River...
Ford, a slinky five-foot-niner with a head as smart as his strokes are slick, is the fair-haired boy of Coach Bob Kiphuth's Yale team. Born in Balboa, Canal Zone, he was given swimming lessons at the age of three because his parents, transplanted Illinoisans, wanted him to be more amphibious than they. By the time he was 15 he was picked for a team to represent the Canal Zone in an international swimming meet in South America. Last year, as a student at Mercersburg Academy, he caused a sensation by equaling Weissmuller's record...
They are now being replaced in a number of industries by made-to-measure ear mufflers of smooth plastic, put out by Manhattan's Maico, Inc., an adaptation of their main product-hearing aids. An impression is taken of the outer folds and canal entrance of the ear. From this cast a polished plastic plug is made which extends into the auditory canal, is locked in place by a lip which fits over the helix (rim of the external ear). Light and clean, the plug is easily inserted with a twisting motion, cannot be pushed in too far, leaves...