Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the lower side. The destroyer Hammann was standing by to furnish power for the pumps. The next noon a Jap sub launched two torpedoes into the carrier's weakened plates and sank the destroyer with two more. The concussion broke several men's feet. Lieut. Commander Ernest Davis was blown overboard. Many men had broken arms and legs. The explosion made a hole in the Yorktown's port side from hangar to keel. A sailor standing waist deep on the Hammann was setting the safety on depth bombs so they would not explode beneath...
...CAME: AN AMERICAN WHITE PAPER FROM THE FALL OF FRANCE TO PEARL HARBOR-Forrest Davis and Ernest K. Lindley-Simon & Schuster...
...well-endowed Junior Statesman School (the brain child of Montezuma's smart headmaster, Ernest Andrew Rogers) is no ordinary civics course but a working experiment in grown-up democratic politics. Back in their own high schools, Montezuma's moppet statesmen organize chapters along the lines of their State government, pitch into local politics when and where they can. Typical project: In Long Beach, Junior Statesmen originated and pushed through the fingerprinting of the whole town...
...Adolf Hitler, on the war's third anniversary, hinted that Japan would soon attack Russia. In How War Came, published last week, Reporters Forrest Davis and Ernest K. Lindley report that in the Tripartite Pact Japan promised Germany to attack Siberia when the German Army reached the Volga...
When his country went to war, the youngest brother buckled down to business, patiently carried out his share of the duties prescribed by officialdom. For Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin he inspected factories and mines. For the Ministry of Home Security he visited groups of women knitters, admitted he was "quick with the needles, but not good." When the R.A.F. appointed him a welfare officer with the rank of Air Vice Marshal, he thought the station too high, arranged his demotion to Air Commodore...