Word: makeshift
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...shows for the service men are to be "clean but humorous." Before they can go on, the Army's Morale Division has to okay them. In the promotion for Camp Shows, the word "sex" is archly avoided. As a makeshift for it, Camp Showmen have coined a yoo-hoo substitute-"woodle...
...drafted him at 32, it did not put him on the bridge of a warship. Instead, he found himself on the "front porch" of an openwork biplane, learning to fly, then teaching himself the dangerous art of taking off from the deck of a merchantman. From this kind of makeshift carrier, Flight Commander Bowhill flew on the first bombing against the German Navy in World...
Captain Jack Penson will lead his Varsity soccer team against a makeshift graduate aggregation this afternoon on the Soldiers Field grounds...
Throughout the U.S., some 329,000 children were in a similar fix. The Federal Office of Education estimated that 200,000 would crowd into present or makeshift classrooms. The remaining 129,000 would have to get their education in tents or portable houses, or go without schooling...
...Curwen will stroke the Jayvees and Hal Fales is the fifty pace setter. Harvey Love has finally picked out a makeshift Freshman eight which Geroge Angle will stroke. Of the eight men which Love picked three days ago to face the embryo Engineers only three are now rowing on the boat which will square off agianst Tech this afternoon. In an informal race at 4 o'clock the second fifty eight will meet an M. I. T. counterpart...