Word: mask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students of Harvard and Radcliffe and Faculty and staff members and their families, were introduced to "What An Air Raid Warden Is Supposed to Do" by Mrs. DeRoth, a former warden of Chelsea, in London. Mrs. DeRoth were the uniform of Chelsea wardens including the steel helmet and gas mask. Remarking on the idealized conceptions of proper equipment for wardens, she said, "We used to hope the war would be over before we got all our equipment...
...drudgery, guarding a stretch of the California coastline. Said Private Gerald Reynolds: "[On New Year's Eve] I went on watch at 6 that evening, with a complete outfit-tin hat, gas mask, canteen, rifle and bayonet and nothing but water in the canteen either. Me and another guy were out with a Doberman dog patrolling a section of Terminal Island shoreline. Everything was completely blacked out and it was raining to beat the band. We had raincoats on but even then after six hours of it we got pretty wet. You could hear harbor waters swishing...
...have been impressed and encouraged by ... [finding] an Olympian fortitude which, far from being based upon complacency, is only the mask of an inflexible purpose and the proof of a sure, well-grounded confidence in the final outcome...
...welded together in shops, then hauled & hoisted to the ways and welded into a complete hull. In shops welding is quicker than in the ways, since a welder can easily reach difficult spots and never has to weld over his head with molten steel drops raining down on his mask and shoulders. Formerly, a keel was laid in the ways and riveters started at the middle and worked slowly toward each end of the ship, because the plates had to be staggered and overlapped in an intricate patchwork. The 530,000 rivets in a typical 1918 freighter filled perhaps...
...pulled the paper stuffing out of the grenade pouches in his belt and stuck the newly arrived "pineapples" in place. He had limbered up his new gas mask, which he would need more than legs in case of a heavy dust storm, and he had tucked away half a dozen pairs of flimsy Cellophane dust-goggles. He had pinched a piece of netting from a truck's camouflage to drape over his helmet-both for his personal camouflage and for swishing away flies. He had bound up the desert sores on the backs of his hands...