Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teaching. What Yale is doing with Burmese, Malayan, Japanese, Chinese and-most popular of all-Russian, is being done in pretty much the same way with other tongues elsewhere: University of California (Thai, Annamese), Pennsylvania (Moroccan Arabic, Hausa, Fanti) Indiana (Turkish). Noise Guide. Charming, handsome Shwe Waing was a sailor; his home port was Rangoon, where once a soothsayer said he would become a teacher. Last spring Yale picked him off Ellis Island. Technically Shwe Waing is no teacher but a guide through the jungle of Burmese vocables. Every morning for an hour he produces them as ordered by Yale...
...returned sailor from way down under who expects to go under soon again, I think the idea swell. Your magazine means a lot out there to us. . . . I was once the delighted recipient of 17 copies of TIME in a row. After being thrown out of the Philippines, the mail service was damn bad. Everything finally got straightened out in Australia, and my favorite relaxation in the afternoon while resting up from two war patrols in an "S" class submarine was to get into the bathtub with a bottle of scotch and a copy of TIME and go to town...
...return to civilian life (what the hell, I'll take a chance while still a sailor), I'd like to engage Legionnaires John Gare Jr. and John E. Boland with tomatoes-preferably rotten eggs-at 20 paces...
...crusading zealously in its own behalf. In a series of advertisements in newspapers and trade magazines it had been preparing for its Oct. 19 hearing (at which postal examiners will determine Esquire's right to continue to use second-class mail) by back-patting itself as a soldier-sailor morale builder...
...Sailors from Pearl Harbor and soldiers from Africa have spent long weeks in hospitals suffering from flash burns covering big areas of skin. A sailor stripped to the waist burns much worse than one wearing a skivvy shirt. So the Navy now tries to make men keep their shirts on in battle. The new cream covers the places clothing cannot-hands and face...