Word: sailorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's V-Men and civilians got into stop this week to start off the new and novel athletic program. The presence of sailor uniforms, an integral part of the whole Harvard V-12 training, no longer occasions any comment. Loss obvious, and loss well known, are the eight chief petty officers, specialists in some phase or other of athletics, who are bolstering the staff of the department...
...Dawn has made only about a dozen inlays for the Navy. But in the near future many cases may echo Dawn's sailor patient who looked in the mirror and cried: "God, I'm happy! Now I can go home...
Sculpture Plus Chemistry. When he was a boy on a Kentucky farm, Dawn used to take a cold chisel, hammer and spoon over to the creek bank and chop faces in soft sandstone. Many years later, after time spent as a sailor, dishwasher and cowhand-always with a lump of sculptor's clay in his pocket - a Hollywood studio hired him to be an Indian brave...
...searched. The bluejacket wondered what was wrong, why he had been called to the "nut factory." His service record in the surface ships was clean. The psychiatrist's questions gave him no clues. But his answers and his scores in the preliminary written tests told the tale. The sailor was healthy, intelligent and eager for sub duty, but he was not the type. Within the hour, he was off the Base, his papers marked "immediate sea duty...
...derelict, poverty-stricken, starving, illiterate, reactionary country in Europe to tell us how to manage our affairs. This great Christian would not of course tell a lie.. . . As he is the head of a state, he is entitled to courtesy. Instead, therefore, of replying to him in a sailor's phrase of two words we will politely use five often to be found on office doors 'Keep out! This means you!' . . If Germany and Italy do not like our bombing, that is just too bad, but they are in the fortunate position of being able...