Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...microcosm of the whole world of science, the Bio Lab contains a thousand variegated experiments and in one corner a group studies the flight mechaniism of birds while in another room Professor Henry Stetson plots the ocean bed. In the library during moments away from texts, the old wheeze is whispered about the Freshman who asked the libarian, "Do you have 'Sex and Internal Secretions,'" and was speedily answered, "Of course...
President Conant's argument still doesn't hold water and the objections to it still do. A short-of-war position is tenable now, and hemispheric defense is as potentially strong as we choose to make it. After our recent seasickness, we should know that an ocean trip is bad for our Constitution. The toll of the war has not even been estimated by anyone in authority, nor the length of it. Nevertheless, we like Conant's way of putting it, because it is such a pleasant contrast to official Washington. He has more liberty speaking as a "private citizen...
...reiterated his faith in the war's outcome. "In order to win this war [Hitler] must either conquer this island by invasion or he must cut the ocean life line which joins us to the U.S. . . . With every week that passes we grow stronger on the sea." The real battle confronting Britain, he reminded his hearers, was the Battle of the Atlantic. "We have got to win on salt water just as decisively as we had to win the Battle of Britain last August and September in the air." And he paid his respects to Franklin Roosevelt, who last...
...believe the American people will sit idly by with Hitler controlling the Atlantic Ocean and undermining our freedom in this hemisphere. It seems to me clear that in all likelihood the longer we delay in sending full aid against the Axis Powers, the longer will be the war, and the greater will be the ultimate misery for all mankind...
...Spanish villa on Biscayne Bay. There he occasionally visits with Neighbor Ed Kelly, boss-man of Chicago, occasionally drops in at the gambling rooms of the swanky Brook Club, watches the ponies from his box at Hialeah, and freshens up between times with Turkish baths and massages at the ocean-front Roman Pools. Mr. Hague's salary as mayor is $8,000 a year. Other sources of income: unknown...