Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After returning from overseas service in the naval air corps last October, Darlington was married. He has been a student here since last February.
Besides these combat losses, 85,219 had died from other causes (illness and rear-area accidents). The awesome total: 308,978. The latest Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard figures show 87,659 dead and missing, for a U.S. armed forces total of 396,637.
Among the speakers at the Cambridge Centennial dinner, Wednesday evening at the Hotel Commander, were President Conant, Gen. Courtney H. Hodges, former First Army commander, and Marine Corps Congressional Medal of Honor winner Brig.-Gen. Merritt A. Edson.
In 1933 Cajun Jack Willis formed his C. W. Plywood Co., devised his own weatherproof plywood. During the war, the Air Corps alone used 30 million board feet of it and, to date, Willis has sold more plywood to lumber dealers than anybody else. Some of his plywood profits, about...
The existence as a whole was hardly dreary. Edith and Osbert performed musical marvels on a pianola, while Sacheverell, too young to pump, "listened to us both with a flattering air of respect and, even of rapture." A well-meaning aunt gave lectures on the social impossibility of otherwise well...