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Word: caps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very much ravelled at the moment. Should we buy anchor shoulder boards for our summer uniforms, and sell them to the next class? What hats can we wear with whites as Midshipmen? Can we wear whites as Midshipmen? For graduation, though, you'd better have an officer's visor cap, white cover, insignia, et al, and white shoes. Black shoes are required with khakis on and off the station. Tune in next week for answers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 4/16/1943 | See Source »

...White Bear" answered. The little man tightened the dark scarf around his neck, tugged the broken beak of his cap over his eyes and went out into the rain. With him floated the ropey smell of cheap twist and stale beer. Snatches of conversation flickered around the low-ceilinged room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Pub and the People | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...alone with her in the forest, was hastily mar ried to her by a friendly preacher. Almost immediately they were separated, for en try into bristling Fort Pitt was not for everyone. Inside the fort, Salathiel met the commandant Captain Ecuyer, became his valet and bodyguard. From the Cap tain he learned discipline, borrowed such books as Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Richard son's Clarissa Harlowe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mighty Installment | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA--American forces have smashed ahead six miles in southern Tunisia, developing a direct threat to the now Nazi coastal defense line while France-British troops have broken through to the north coast and captured Cap Serrat, it was revealed tonight...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

Surely the second front will not suffer if the remnants of the class gather in Sanders Theatre for a traditional Class Day afternoon program of speeches and singing. Surely Marshal Rommel will not be forced to swim for Italy any later if we "put on the cap and gown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 4/2/1943 | See Source »

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