Word: closet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hunters flew alone, and they flew far: sometimes 1,250 miles out over the Atlantic. Said Colonel Roberts: "These boys took an awful beating. They averaged twelve or 15 hours of flying every three days. The bombers average about seven. . . . Just try locking yourself in a closet for 15 hours with somebody giving you a sandwich once in a while and you'll have a pretty good idea of what it was like...
Commander In Chief. Secretary of War Newton D. Baker was a dependable man. Mr. Wilson told him to closet himself for a few days and recommend the officer who should take command of the American Expeditionary Forces. Mr. Baker actually knew few generals, except by name, but he had the records. The man he chose was John J. Pershing, whom he had never seen...
...HARVARD SERVICE NEWS opens its portals and beer closet to all University students who want to try out for the fall competition Tuesday, November 9, at 7:30 o'clock...
...BONES -Herman Peterson -Duell, Sloan and Pearce ($2). How a family skeleton that strayed from its closet to the bottom of an abandoned standpipe endangered the lives of several likable people and gave a rural doctor his chance to play sleuth. Well written, mystifying, capably plotted...
...slack-lipped way of called the Yard, the "Yard," comes up with a solution, and a darn good one it it, too. A football game with Yale why not? I have the cutes raccoon coat, and a cunning little hip flash knocking around somewhere in the back of my closet, and I'm just itching for an excuse to use them. What are we waiting for, start those presses rolling, start those footballs floating through the crisp autumn air. "Get the boys out of the labs by Thanksgiving!" And what we'll do to these pale blue touch-football players...