Word: sailorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While three other Ramsey children stood by, the ex-sailor began lugging in chairs, bedding, stacks of other household goods...
...Midway was so vast (986 ft. long) and so intricately divided into watertight compartments below the hangar deck that a boot sailor could be excused if he took days to find his way around. But the vastness of the flight deck eased the operations of Commander John T. ("Tommy") Blackburn's Air Group 74; pilots even approved the emery-paper landing surface on the steel deck. The 5-inch, .54-caliber guns had beginners' luck and brought down a good bag of towed sleeves and radio-controlled drone target planes. Eventually, all departments would function as smoothly...
...Good Clay. Born in Seattle, Ward went to work at four, left home at 17 to become a sailor, later drove a dogsled and mined gold in Alaska, fought with Pancho Villa in Mexico. In 1920, he found himself in Leavenworth Prison for violating the narcotics law. There his cellmate was Herbert Huse Bigelow (in for income-tax evasion), president of B & B. Bigelow liked Ward, told him: "I'm going to remold you; you're made of good clay." When Bigelow was released eight months later, he asked Ward what job he would like with the company...
...placed seven men on the All-House football team announced by Adolph W. Samborski '25 yesterday. Notable for the absence of Eliot's passer Herbie Eckenroth, who was master of the intramural airways before the Varsity squad grabbed him, the team bears eloquent testimony to the omnipotence of the sailor powerhouse...
...also jampacked with minor characters, ranging from a sailor who takes his accordion to bed with him ("It takes up less room than a woman and sounds a hell of a lot better") to suave -Lord Kelvinston, who subsidizes the ballet and reeks of "inbred irony." You and I has amusing moments and non-stop action, but somehow it seems just to have been poured...