Word: locker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...destroyers put torpedoes into the Wasp to put her out of her misery. The flagship took aboard some of the Wasp's surviving pilots. Later, in the bedroom of one of the ship's officers, one of the older pilots stood in front of a grey locker and talked with an absolutely blank expression. He addressed one of his fellow pilots. "Well, Murphy," he said, "it's a little hard for us to realize yet. All those fellows over there. ... I came in from my search and didn't see the task force, so I thought...
Since then the Negroes had got along excellently with the villagers, with British troops near them, with hard-working Land Army girls. They had worked hard and well. Off duty, they had the freedom of the town. Said Private Richard Sessions, onetime locker boy for a swank Minnesota club, in University English: "I rather thought the English people would be a bit prejudiced toward members of my race, but it's not true at all. They've been extremely nice...
...same time, the H.A.A. announced that participation tickets for the whole year will be $12, with a $5 optional locker fee. Refunds will be made to students leaving before the year...
...narrow windows, bad ventilation and wood floors. Many of 1942's implements of war are made in block-long rooms with broad bands of windows and hard, clean floors; under light sometimes better than daylight, in cool, washed air. Lavatories are generally clean and shiny; there are locker rooms to change clothes...
Seeking the same ends that he feels are mandatory, the plan is more optimistic in hoping for lowered fees for students, Bingham said. Stating that present prices are "not exorbitant," he said that locker fees would be optional in the fall, but that no other savings were in sight for students. "Football fall receipts are the basis" of the whole athletic economy, he said, and football may be halted by Army decree...