Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Medical Inspector for the Teheran District. He returned to the United States in February, 1944, and relieves Captain Steven J. Starr, M. C., as Instructor in Military Sanitation and First Aid at the Chaplain School. Captain Starr is being transferred to the Station Hospital at Fort Adams, Newport, Rhode Island...
...ladies err anywhere it is on the side of caution. One WASP, heading for Long Island, was dismayed by Manhattan's towering skyline, turned, to climb for altitude, lost her way, made an emergency landing in Freehold, N.J. Caution, however, has paid off in a low fatality rate. Only 13 WASPs have lost their lives...
About Enough. A Grand Island, Neb. sailor wrote home from overseas: "We asked the censor and he said it was all right to tell you that we are at (deleted by censor). That is about all I can tell you, though." Dodger. On Kwajalein Atoll, marines prepared to dynamite a stubborn dugout when a Jap ran out yelling, "Don't shoot! I've got a brother in Brooklyn...
...Mathematician. The Liebers, who teach mathematics at New York's Long Island University, have a fine time explaining elementary things about Boolian algebra, non-Euclidean geometry and the fourth dimension. The reader is likely to share their gusto, even if he can not agree that "science and mathematics . . . can be a veritable defense against ALL evil...
...Lieber is balding and plump, Mrs. Lieber middle-aged and kindly. He comes from Missouri, she from Russia. Albert Einstein and other top-flight savants like to read what the Liebers write. At Long Island University they have founded the Galois Institute of Mathematics,* to which the greatest U.S. mathematicians contribute expositions of their favorite subjects in what they hope is simple English...