Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seldom in history had an invading force been better behaved or more peacefully inclined. The 10,000 U.S. Navymen who swarmed into London last week from the battleships Wisconsin and New Jersey, the carriers Kearsarge and Randolph, were in holiday mood. The 2,140 downy-cheeked midshipmen were agog with excitement over the sights they had seen on Uncle Sam's "Show the Flag" junket to northwestern Europe...
...Monge will soon be joined by Dr. Harry G. Armstrong of the School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field, Tex., a leading U.S. authority on high-altitude effects. He ought to learn much, Dr. Monge thinks, by studying Andean Man, a fellow already adapted to altitudes almost as high as many an airplane...
OZARK SUPERSTITION (367 pp.)-Vance Randolph-Columbia University...
There are thousands of items as curious as these. Author Randolph says that although the old notions die hard, many of them are in fact dying: "Wherever railroads and highways penetrate, wherever newspapers and movies and radios are introduced, the people gradually lose their distinctive local traits and assume the drab color which characterizes conventional Americans elsewhere...
...Arkansas, whom Randolph asked about witchcraft, put it differently: "Them things are goin' on same as they always did, but it's all under cover nowadays. The young folks lives too fast an' heedless. More than half of 'em are bewitched anyhow, so they don't care what happens. It looks like the Devil's got the country by the tail, on a downhill pull...