Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last spring Harry Schooler took a ten-year lease on Ocean Park's vast Aragon Ballroom (1,500 electric bulbs dimly light its 14,000 square feet of dance floor...
Many of you have in your veins German and Italian blood, but remember that these ancestors of yours so loved freedom that they gave up home and country to cross the ocean in search of liberty...
Since their entry into the ocean battles they have been doing jobs far out of proportion to their size. Last week the Navy released the story of one of them, "Escort Carrier...
...tight entrance to their schoolroom. They donned red goggles to open their eyes to their lesson. Their classroom: a little theater complete with stage and lighting effects, everything painted dead black, even the benches on which they sat. The cast: friend and enemy warships. The play: night on any ocean. Center aisle in the orchestra were the choice seats: two shelves in a wooden reproduction of a submarine's bridge. Here sat the students to be tested...
After reading Stevension's description of the Gilbert Islands, "a superb ocean climate, days of blinding sun and bracing winds, nights of a heavenly brightness," to his class, the funster par excellence (Courts & Boards) advised BuPers that the August 25th class was mentally prepared to experience the pleasures of South Pacific twilights...