Word: matings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...packed off to Phillips Exeter Academy from his home near Catfish Creek in Iowa, he became coxswain of the crew when he graduated from Harvard in 1936 he shipped out on a Standard Oil tanker bound for South America. Finally he went to work as deck hand, mate and pilot on a succession of Mississippi river boats-diesel towboats and stern-wheelers. A Stretch on the River is his first, largely autobiographical novel based on those days...
...naturally inspiring. The cruise is a little more than routine and therefore the events too are just a little more than routine. Slipping under destroyers and other Japanese ships, the sub makes its destination and gets the stuff. There is also an operation performed by a pharmacist's mate under the sea with kitchen knives, the sinking of an aircraft carrier and a destroyer, the U.S. air force in its first raid on Japan, and the stabbing of a crew member by a Japanese...
Commander MacMillan plans another trip to the Arctic this summer to collect specimens for the Peabody Museum and others. First mate Rand will make his third trip, along with Stanton A. Cook '51 and Ian M. White...
...China, and the Chinese, it was true, were having themselves some kind of a war only a few miles away. But it wasn't Sergeant Bender's war. He decided to get in a little flying time, asked a big, tousle-headed Navy chief electrician's mate named William C. Smith to go along for the ride...
Brown is the best hitter on the Yale team, and bats in the cleanup position. His battery mate, catcher Mickey Chasan off, is also a long ball hitter...