Word: craning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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P.G.C. medics had revelations of their own. They found that the healthier the worker was, the more attention he demanded; one boy of twelve, who was in charge of an electric crane, succeeded in getting no less than three injections for typhus (he really liked it). Another eye-opener came when a worker's head was crushed between two crates of machinery, and he was back on the job in two days. "His head was noticeably elongated, but he claimed he felt better than he ever had before...
...suicide plane with one wing gone, hurtles over & over with sickly oafishness as it falls. Another swoops in a long, low slant, just clears the heads of the crew, chops into the water like a spent dart: U.S. sailors, with the bemused fixity of men narrowly escaped from death, crane their necks like children to watch its explosion...
...quick-thinking operator of a coal derrick edged his big machine to the bank, swung the bucket of his crane up to the Hamonic's bow, swung it down to earth again when it had taken on its frantic load. Captain Beaton, scorched out of his pilot house, attempted to climb to a lower deck but fell. He plunged into the water from the portside, climbed back aboard up the crane boom, stayed there till all were...
Throughout this period, and increasingly towards the end, professors were returning, or announcing their plans to return, to Harvard from wartime positions with the government: Donald C. McKay, associate professor of History, C. Crane Brinton '19, professor of History, Arthur N. Holcombe, professor of Government, and William Y. Elliott, professor of Government. Professor Elliott's return next fall was considered unlikely, however, in the light of his recent appointment by President Truman to the committee investigating the Philippine Islands...
Throughout this period, and increasingly towards the end, professors were returning, of announcing their plans to return, to Harvard from wartime positions with the government: Donald C. McKay, associate professor of History, C. Crane Brinton '19, professor of History. Arthur N. Holcombe Professor of Government, and William Y. Elliott, professor of Government. Professor Elliott's return next fall was considered unlikely, however, in the light of his recent appointment by President Truman to the committee investigating to Philippine Islands...