Word: dix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pure cussedness none of them had ever seen anything like the job they had to do. The Army was everywhere, from Fort Dix to Chungking, from Reykjavik to Port Darwin. Country boys in khaki, with the hayseed barely combed out of their hair, soldiered at Khorram Shar within hiking distance of the muddy confluence of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Officers who had never been off the pavements set up camps on atolls in the Pacific or led men through the drifting fogs of the Aleutians to new homes that must be built. In the miasmas of Surinam...
...John's, Washington, "the Church of the Presidents," just across Lafayette Square from the White House. In 1940 he went on to Boston's Byzantine Trinity Church, made famous by Phillips Brooks. Married, with one son, he is now on leave as an army chaplain at Fort Dix, N.J. (during World War I he served as division chaplain on the Western Front...
Goya, Daumier, Homer, and Bellows are represented in "Prints of Six Wars," dating from the Thirty Years War, while a German, Otto Dix, found the most gruesome inspiration from the last...
...Religious conditions at Fort Dix, N.J. are quite typical of all the camps'' said Brigadier General William R. Arnold, Chief of Army Chaplains, last week. Here is the setup at Dix...
...bought some $3,000 worth of tickets to the fight for his fellow privates at Fort Dix. Afterwards he told sportswriters that the only punch of Simon's that he felt landed on his hip. "I don't know if I will be able to march so good tomorrow," said...