Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although on last year's annual spring trip the Glee Club knitted several socks for Britain, the 1942 edition went them one better by returning home with a demure rabbit, and tales of 60-mile hitch-hikes, and buses loaded to double their capacity wending their weary way through a blinding snowstorm...
...Radioman Gene Aldrich, 22, a husky, gabby, self-confident Missouri farm boy, and Ordnanceman Tony Pastula, shy, dreamy, sandy-haired son of Polish immigrants. After CCC camps in the West, they had both joined the Navy to see the world. But with 41-year-old Dixon, whose first hitch began in 1919, the Navy was a business. He took charge as soon as his beloved bomber sank from sight...
...Hitch to Mr. Patton's salary-raising proposal is that the Episcopal Church has never been very missionary-minded; since 1929 it has been less missionary-minded than ever. Few of its depression cuts in mission funds have been restored. The Episcopal Church has the highest average ministerial salary of any church in the U.S. ($2,960), but Episcopalians spend only 7%-less than any other church-for general work, including missions, and 85%-more than any other-in the local congregations themselves...
...Only hitch in the blackout came when a Senior was "hit by an enemy bomb" but was unable to get any first aid. Supposedly, he bled to death on the steps of the janitor's office...
...less familiar languages have "almost unique utility." However, the Intelligence Corps has said that it will not take volunteer interpreters from civilian life. Once drafted, an ex-student of Japanese may apply for transfer to the Intelligence department, if vacancies exist. The chances may be good, but the hitch should be publicized nevertheless. It would also have been a good idea to point out that the course, to be effective, must be followed up by approximately eight months of further training under the Far Eastern Department. Prospective students ought also to be told that Geography 10b, Biology 23, Biology...