Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wheeling "stogie" once achieved literary standing. When Rudyard Kipling wrote Captains Courageous he required something sufficiently powerful to make a worldlywise, traveled, smart-alec, young son of a rich American father so ghastly nauseated that he would fall overboard from an ocean liner in order, for purposes of the plot, to be rescued by a fishing smack. A Wheeling "stogie" did the trick-not an overdose of ice cream sodas, as in the movie version. The lad was no sissie...
...have missed an issue of your timely magazine, and may thus seem ignorant of recent developments, but what has happened to Hawaii? Has it been secretly anschlussed by Japan? Have the ocean waves risen to engulf it-Navy, pineapples, Kalaupapa leper settlement and all? Or are your editors ignorant of the fact that the Organic Act declares Hawaii to be an American Territory, "an integral part...
Last year, World War II piled up trouble for Radiator's properties in the democracies. Actually the European subsidiaries were not losing money. But for any use they were to American Radiator their profits might as well have been at the bottom of the ocean...
...search of anthropological and ethnological data about the Negro peoples of the Pacific Ocean, Douglas L. Oliver '34, Itesearch Associate in Anthropology, and his wife spent almost two years in the volcanic jungle island of Bougainville, a British mandate in the Soloman Islands...
...Ocean Park, Wash., fishermen reported that an oyster snared a duck by its foot at low tide, drowned it when the water rose...