Word: rectoral
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...President's head was bowed as Navy Chaplain Frank R. Wilson, onetime rector of Franklin Roosevelt's own St. James Episcopal Church at Hyde Park, intoned the Collect for Peace: "Defend us, Thy humble servants, in all assaults of our enemies, that we, surely trusting in Thy defense, may not fear the power of any adversaries...
...Reverend Mr. Frederic B. Kellog, rector of Christ Church, will go a war bond. The winning title which will top the new paper beginning with today's issue is HARVARD SERVICE NEWS, characterized, in the author's words, as a name that is "subtle" but not "too flashy...
Aboard a U.S. submarine in enemy waters of the Pacific, Seaman Dean Rector was down with acute appendicitis. The nearest naval surgeon was thousands of miles away. Pharmacist's Mate Wheller Lipes watched Rector's temperature rise to 106, knew his only hope was an operation. Said Lipes: "I've watched doctors do appendectomies. I think I could do it. . . . What...
...Groaned Rector: "Let's get going." In the wardroom, about the size of a Pullman drawing room, Rector stretched out on the table beneath a floodlight ordinarily used for loading. The pharmacist's mate and assisting officers pulled on reversed pajama tops, masked their faces with gauze. From end to end the submarine, riding deep under the surface, was tense. Men stood by the diving planes to keep her steady. In the galley the cook kept water boiling in his kettles for sterilizing...
Thirteen days later Rector was back on duty manning the submarine's battle phones. As souvenirs he had a handful of bent spoons and, preserved in alcohol, the only appendix known to have been removed undersea in enemy waters...