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...rough hull. To save the hands ("principal tools of salvation") Chambliss recommends carrying a pair of light leather gloves in the hip pocket at all times. A knife is a necessity. So is a pencil flashlight, easily carried in a shirt pocket, best kept dry in a knotted rubber sheath ("a bit inelegant, but elegance has no place in abandoning ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Over the Side | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...name is turned with mine in cunning sheath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet's Prophecy | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...duties would be "guesting" a column for a soon-to-be married-and-thus no-time to-write Ensign However, the situations with which I have been confronted, the problems which I have tackled, and the impatient Ensigns whom I have pacified with a few clam words and a sheath of incorrectly filled forms, have, I believe, if not prepared me for this journalistic task, at least given me the course to speak my place (or peace ... depending upon the interpretations...

Author: By Ysoman Brill, | Title: Electronics School | 6/11/1943 | See Source »

...while the sword is yet in sheath, And while I wait to act my part; I dream . . . until the point of death Shall strike to still a lonely heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Soldier Poet in New Guinea | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...They are self-supervising. Damage to the sheath lets gas escape; and this warning drop in pressure sends crews to repair the cable before the vital copper conductors are hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Electricity Via Gas | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

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