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...seacoast fire-control radar" can detect individual vessels 25 miles out to sea through the soupiest nor'easter, with a five-yard margin of error at twelve miles...
...time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things: of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--and of how John Huntington has taken off his straw hat and put on his Easter bonnet, and made the change very successfully. "Alice in Wonderland" is, as always, very pleasant nonsense...
...against a bank of flowers on green camouflage wire. High-ranking officers, led by Marine Lieut. General Roy S. Geiger, stood at attention while the brief service was read. The melancholy notes of taps floated over nearby Hagushi Beach, where General Buckner's men had swarmed ashore on Easter morning. Then his body was lowered into the ground, to rest in honor with the other thousands who had died to win Okinawa...
When the time approached for our family to think about college, we found that all accredited Easter 4 schools demanded entrance examinations of any candidate who matriculated at a Chicago public high school...
...Easter Sunday, in a broadcast from England, Dorothy Thompson said that people in England were writing to their papers asking even further reductions in their rations in order that the food thus saved could be sent to Europe where famine menaces. . . . England, who has suffered so much, asks to help by depriving herself. How can we, who pride ourselves on our generosity, do less...