Word: mate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Every man stayed on his battle station. If one was killed, a radioman or pharmacist's mate would take his place...
...Chicago Musi-comedienne June Havoc auctioned off two pairs of nylons at $1,300 worth of bonds a pair. The three survivors of the six-man detail which posed for the famed flag-raising picture on Iwo Jima - Pfc. Rene Gagnon, Pfc. Ira Hayes and Pharmacist's Mate John Bradley - rode through the rain to inspire the cheering citizens of Boston. In Tampa, a 75-mm. cannon boomed hourly from Plant Park. In Indianapolis, Mayor Robert Tyndall gave "the order of the day": Over the top. Indianapolis. Cheyenne County, Wyo. held "pie socials." Funnyman S. J. Perelman and Author...
Laboratoiy workers consider the hamster's laboratory qualifications practically ideal: it is even more susceptible to human diseases than the guinea pig. The gestation period is the shortest known for a mammal-15 days, 21 hours. It begins to mate by its 43rd day, bears its first litter at the age of two months. Thereafter, until the age of one year, when it stops bearing, it can deliver a litter of two to 15 young every month...
...confirming his fear that 1946 was completely unfamiliar with the ivy-covered folklore of the 300-year old institution, he swing on his Freshman room-mate accusingly. "Did you ever hear of the old letter-carrier who used to climb across the roof from one entry of Matthews to the other, as a short-cut to save steps?" he demanded. Upon the expected "no," Vag settled back and sighed unhappily...
...tent. The next he was quiet and the sheet was pulled over his head. I saw a big marine who might have been a wrestler, judging by his huge neck and bulging biceps. His barrel chest heaved mightily as he fought to breathe and live. Said Pharmacist's Mate Billy O'Neal: "One of his main arteries was hit. The internal hemorrhage is so great, he seems to be drowning in his own fluids." Half an hour later the big fellow was dead...