Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind his back, friends call Captain Lovette the Navy's "Emily Post." thanks to his book, Naval Customs, Traditions and Usage, which is unofficial reading for all young naval officers. But there is small chance that his nickname will gather prissy connotations. Besides Pearl Harbor, Lovette's record includes commendation for assisting in the capture of a German raider while commanding a submarine chaser in World War I, another commendation for command of a U.S. gunboat during the revolution in South China...
...wave gathered its water and broke upon the warm dry sand, and is now returning to the narrow crease between sea and sky. A new wave is beginning to gather. In time, that will crash and recede, making way for another. That is the life and the power...
...recent law in Russia prohibits more than 70 students to gather in any one theatre...
...which the civilians are fully as important a factor as the armed forces. We must not only hate the little yellow warrior; not only despise the war party that has created them; but we must learn to loathe every Japanese boy and girl who gather rice in the fields, or go without food so that the yellow army can bomb our shores. It is the people, the customs, the culture,--every least part of the Japanese civilization that is symbolized by a spider or an octopus in the cartoons which decorate the editorial pages of our city newspapers...
...gather information needed in the formation of definite plans for the summer term, the University will require all tutors and advisors to see the men under their supervision and discuss their plans for the summer...