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...Though I sometimes have to wait around for a ship fitter or rigger, I know that I'm there when occasion demands and when I'm welding or tacking that someone else is waiting for me to finish, since we both learned a long time ago that "two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time...
According to Lieutenant-Commander George H. L. Peet, who will direct the general aspects of the program, the Unit intends by physical education, not only to make its prospective officers fitter but to improve their qualities for officership...
...getting so fed up with Pop spending the whole time talking politics." It was politics that had brought William Randolph Hearst, 78, from San Simeon to San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel, whither he summoned his editors and publishers to discuss war policy. Springy of step, looking fitter than he had in years, the old publisher seemed to his admiring Hearstlings well nigh indestructible...
Admiral Thomas Charles Hart, in his order sending the little Asiatic Fleet into the Strait, could have written no fitter farewell to his command (see p. 23). His battle order: Submarines and surface ships will attack the enemy, and no vessel will leave the scene of action until it is sunk or all its ammunition exhausted...
...Nova Scotia sea captain, George Cutten was a reporter, appletree seller, pipe fitter, football coach and Baptist minister before he became a college president. When he was 18, his uncle locked him in a room and refused to let him out until he would agree to go to college. George finally decided to go to play football. At Acadia College and at Yale he was a star center, worked his way by preaching at nearby churches, He got a divinity degree and Ph.D. in psychology, writing his thesis on The Psychology of Alcoholism, which fortified him for a lifelong avocation...