Word: manual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friends, exhibit it at the Community Auditoriums. One soldier changed his life by fashioning an irresistible engagement ring for his girl. Army officers' expectation is that, later on, alumni of the Blai courses will aid rehabilitation of the wounded by imparting their new-found knowledge of manual crafts. Blai and assistants may later take their teaching into Army hospitals...
...read his Bluejacket's Manual every night before he went to bed, because he was a good boy and he was in the Navy. And when he walked out on the street in his nice blue uniform of the Naval ROTC he saluted just everybody, because he loved the Navy...
...excuse can be offered. For those of us who were not on duty before coming to the School or for those of us who have not looked through the Blue-jacket's Manual, there was a movie the first week here at Soldiers Field. In that movie the forms of salute were illustrated as well as the officer's proper response to each. Failure to notice and return military courtesies is the mark either of a very green or a very indifferent officer...
...have dared to play a hand or two of bridge daily despite hell, high weather and disbursing problems. If such a group exists we salute it for having the intestinal fortitude to take much needed mental recreation. It is entirely possible to get the meat of Memo and Manual assignments in the compulsory study period and to work most of the problems assigned. Then a few hands of bridge before the lights go out might conceivably make sleeping a little easier. And if we must have night-mares it is far better to dream that we overpaid an officer, accepted...
Items in the new set-up that still have us going--our overseas hats for wear to classes, marching in squads of three, the alcoves that contain all facilities--iron and laundry, to telephone, and the huge bags containing BuSandA Manual and Menia (at this point we have decided there is no easy or best way of carrying them...