Word: chute
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down the Hatch. In Butler, Pa., the Rev. P. K. Collins finally fooled poorbox thieves by installing a hidden chute from the box to the basement...
Editor Freda Kirchwey of The Nation last week felt what a paratrooper feels when his chute opens. Her request for emergency contributions, sent out several weeks ago to The Nation's friends and subscribers (TIME, March 1), clicked. Reported Editor Kirchwey: "The response . . . has been so generous and so prompt that I feel certain . . . The Nation's immediate future is secure...
...Jacob C. Shively of Indianapolis-headed aft to help. They were on the catwalk in the bomb bay when a shell plowed in and exploded alongside them. It blew the navigator down on to the bomb doors. It was good luck they didn't open. He had no chute...
After marching down from the Yard, the brigade will enter the Stadium by the chute in the northeast corner, pass in review, give both Army and Harvard cheers, and break formation to go into the special stands. They are then free to take seats there or go out through the portals for their regular seats, or back to their rooms to get overcoats or civilian clothes...
...Thru God's grace Mike and I are still together. Forded river near fork. . . . Spent last night in chute. Mike caught up. Spent night on hillside, rain starting at four, under small rock. . . . Rained early. Saw wallaby [a small kangaroo...