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Word: matings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their transport sailed to New Zealand, and the men scoured the bookstores in vain. The transport sailed on. was sunk in the Solomons. Machinist's Mate Third Class Lloyd Powers, one of the men on the gun deck, got back to the U.S. last January, made another unsuccessful search for a copy of the book. When he landed briefly in the San Diego Naval Hospital, he pestered Librarian Jeanette Barry to try. She appealed for help in Publishers' Weekly, but still no copy turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thriller | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...pharmacist's mate, first class, took Spanish, which he expects to be useful with his Mexican customers when he resumes his job as manager of a drugstore in Arizona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dear Old SNAFU | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

Typical is the campus of the "University of Adak," in the Aleutians. It is sometimes ankle-deep in mud. Its plant consists of four half-barrel-shaped Quonset huts. Its faculty is a pickup team of volunteers. A 47-year-old chief bosun's mate in the Seabees is the faculty's linguist. A onetime student at the Universities of Paris and Moscow and onetime lieutenant in the Czar's World War I army, he speaks French, German, Serbian, Bulgarian, Russian. Another Adak instructor is a music teacher who was once "Amos & Andy's" organist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dear Old SNAFU | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

Holder of the Purple Heart and Silver Star for service in World War I, Compton had joined the Seabees in September 1942, became a chief electrician's mate. In Bermuda, on his first assignment, he came under command of an ensign with whom he did not get along. Complained Compton: "He was an overbearing kid of about 26 or 27, and you know it's pretty hard on older men who have been in their trade 15 or 20 years to have a youngster telling them what's what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: First Case | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

...corpsmen dropped. He had been shot between the eyes. The other corpsman, Chief Pharmacist's Mate Reeder Parker of Lexington, Ala., told the rest of the story to New York Timesman George Home: The wounded marine . . . was heart broken: "I'm sorry he got it trying to get me back. It's no use taking me because I'm dying anyhow." The wounded man and the young corps man could go no farther without help. Parker sat down beside the marine, whose life was ebbing. The marine prayed for the man who had died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Unselfish Death | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

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