Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pearl Harbor wreckage 52 weeks ago. The Oklahoma was perhaps beyond salvaging. The California, West Virginia and Nevada were either badly damaged or aground. (A ship in the bottom of a shallow harbor can be floated.) The other three battleships in Pearl Harbor last Dec, 7, the Tennessee, the Maryland and the Pacific Fleet flagship Pennsylvania, were put out of action temporarily...
...grows in the woods, has been keeping Harlow's spare time occupied since childhood. At Penn State, from which he graduated in 1912, he took an M.A. in zoology and then taught the subject while coaching football. In fact, all through his coaching career at Penn State, Colgate, Western Maryland, and Harvard he has combined his two specialties. Where most football coaches double as athletic director or some other sports sinecure, Harlow has had such titles as Assistant Professor of Ornithology or Curator of Oology for the off-seasons. Even during the fall, when it appears that all the time...
Ample statistics back Dr. East's findings. In the 1918 draft, rejection rates for bad teeth, per 1,000 men, were: 102.85 in Vermont, 2.90 in Arkansas. In the Civil War drafts, rejections for bad teeth were twice as frequent in New England as in Delaware and Maryland. Preliminary reports on 1940-42 draftees again indicate, says Dr. East, that "the southern and southwestern States will have the lowest rates" of rejections for bad teeth...
Author Seabrook was raised in Maryland's spooky Pennsylvania Dutch country. Whenever his domineering mother was out of his sight, William moped. One day his half-crazy grandmother (with the help of a delightful little bottle) led the sad child into a clearing in a "new, strange wood." There he saw "beautiful bright-plumaged roosters ... as tall as houses . . . their legs . . . like the pillars of cathedral aisles." William's only happiness was "escape into that other dreamworld" until in a moralistic moment Grandfather Seabrook smashed Grandmother's laudanum bottle. It was too late to smash the hypnotic...
...Maryland's Millard E. Tydings spoke for the 39: "This is not altogether our war. If Great Britain, New Zealand and Canada are not going to let their young men go into battle before they are 19 years of age, the United States should not bear that unequal burden...