Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gentlemen, Be Seated! Now that you're fully recovered from your weekend "rest" after exams, you may want to be set for a relapse. The long awaited decision on the fate of Midshipmen who "fail to achieve the academic standard of this school" will be disclosed today. A five word summary of said decision is "Back to line Midshipman School...
...with us at the Harvard Club blowout a week from next Monday. He's on a month's leave, Preparatory to re-entering as a Midship- man with the new class on June J. That's a tough reason for a vacation, as were the deals Fate handed out to Ken Seitz and George Webb...
...Bataan with General MacArthur, and his eyewitness stories were good reporting. He left before Corregidor's fall "to save my neck." He had heard that Don Bell, an American radio commentator, had been tortured and killed by the Japs in Manila, and assumed he would meet the same fate. He also thought that he and TIME'S Melville Jacoby, who was later killed in Australia, might be able to persuade Washington that the Philippines could be saved with some prompt assistance...
...pastel-pink ribbons, and filed away as neatly as love letters. Hungry moths and avid vermin are too liable to corrupt such earthly treasures. Hence they often pad the maws of ashcans and end their usefulness in dumps. For a cherished garment or a much-thumbed book, that fate is bitter. Far better to fling both clothes and texts, with a gesture of sublime extravagance, into the eager coffers of the Brooks House Old Clothes Drive which are secreted in the janitor's office and library of each House...
...former, well-liked by the many Americans who had known him as Governor General of Korea, was shot to death, while the Emperor's Grand Chamberlin, Suzuki, was seriously wounded after a long conversation in which he calmly discussed his fate with the murderer...