Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roughly translated, slop on a shingle. Telling a tall story is snowing. But in the main, we seem to talk quite ordinarily, only somewhat more vigorously than we did as civilians. Even in the Air Corps we call an airplane a ship or a plane, and we do not "rev her up," we only run up the engines and fly around hoping we won't be "jumped by the Nips, shot down in flames and have to hit the silk...
Died. Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. William Temple, 63, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England; of a heart attack...
...simple ceremony began. As the Rev. Dr. George A. Frantz, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis, delivered a Midwesterner's eulogy, scores in the chapel and on the street wept...
...Protestant Episcopal Church's presiding bishop, the Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, (longtime missionary in Japan), looked toward Japan, urged a more Christian attitude toward the Japanese. He recalled that President Roosevelt had refused the gift of a letter opener carved from a bone of a dead Japanese, that the skulls of Japanese soldiers have been sent to America. "However such actions . . . may have been provoked . . ." he wrote, "they cannot but be condemned...
...Manhattan, but now the skyscrapers shut out the harbor breeze. The old "governor" was 70; finally he went to the hospital, for a "rest." But autumn came and he did not go home. Suddenly he was gravely ill. He prayed in his conscious moments, and one night the Most Rev. J. Francis A. Mclntyre, auxiliary bishop of New York, administered the last sacrament. He rallied; but four days later, Death, as it must to all men, came to Alfred Emanuel Smith...