Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British, settled in Madagascar, had a grip on the vital Indian Ocean sentry box the Jap would have given a lot to own. But Axis submarines still operated sporadically to the west in the Mozambique Channel, between Madagascar and the African mainland, through which ship-borne supplies and men flowed north to Russia, the Near East and India. Last week the British announced that they had taken another step...
...concerned. Bracken added, he believed reported anti-British feeling in the U.S. was considerably exaggerated. And before cooling down he had his say about British lecturers: "There will be no more of them going to the U.S. They do more harm than good."* From across the ocean the Washington News added an amen...
...naval historian is particularly fitting for Commander Morison, in view of his experience both as a historian and as a navigator, His latest book, "Admiral of the Ocean Sea", a best-selling biography of Christopher Columbus, was based on an expedition undertaken by Morison over Columbus's route, in a replica of the "Santa Maria". His "Maritime History of New England" is also well-known both to scholars and laymen...
...next four years Kohn was shipped up and down the whole continent of Asia, where he got a taste of Russian prison camps from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. His Russian captors gave him surprising liberties, which included catching malaria and typhoid fever with only the help of a broken down Czech dentist to pull him through. For two years after the Bolshevik Revolution, he was imprisoned in the Siberian cities of Novosibersk and two other unpronounceable locations. Kohn, who just before the war had completed law school in Prague, acquired his first teaching experience in these cities...
...next Saturday the Outing Club is running a tour of some of Boston's historic spots on the horse-drawn carriages of the Gray Line. And Sunday there will be an all-day bicycle trip which will have some watering place, probably the ocean, on its itinerary...