Word: canopus
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...chill of a gathering fog, porters loaded 97 pieces of baggage aboard the big-bellied BOAC Stratocruiser Canopus* at floodlit London Airport. Just before midnight, as hundreds of well-wishers cheered, Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh got aboard; it was the first overseas flight for an heir to the British throne. At 12:31 a.m., the Canopus took off into the mist. Back on the tarmac, Queen Elizabeth blew a last kiss, said to a companion: "I'm full of envy...
...Corregidor saw only a little of the ghastly end. The last, pitifully small ammunition dump on Bataan went up in smoke and flame; the three ships at the water's edge (including the 6,000-ton sub tender Canopus) were dynamited. Finally, from one of the heights on Bataan, a white flag went up. How many of the 36,000 died fighting, only the Japs knew...
...service worker, began to preach. In different parts of the city, 140 meetings were held during the week. Every day at noon, in the largest downtown theatre, services were held for officeworkers. Speakers addressed all the clubs in Des Moines, including the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Cosmopolitan, Canopus, Gyro, Caravan, Women's Civic. Said Mr. Proper: "This movement is the beginning of a great crusade. . . . Science has shown us that what is true in the laboratory test tube is true in the outside world. Both the church and the layman will gain immeasurably by this experiment...