Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jersey's ex-Governor Harold Giles Hoffman, who shed nine pounds a week for four weeks to get into active duty as a major, made the grade on his second physical examination, was ordered to report at Colorado's Lowry Field this week...
Suitor. In St. Albans, Vt., 80-year-old Nelson Coons got a suspended jail sentence for setting fire to a shed which he thought contained his sweetheart and a 75-year-old rival...
...left him at home asleep, returned several hours later, found that a 100-ft. tree had crashed through the house into the living room. Thomas was still asleep. In Salt Lake City, the Edward G. Thomas family slept undisturbed while somebody stole a ton of coal from their coal shed...
Pronounced overweight at the first examination, he shed 36 lb. in a month, got down to 200. Newly-commissioned Major Alvin York began thinking of running for Congress. Lew Ayres, reclassified to 1-A-O (noncombatant work), left the conscientious objectors' camp at Wyeth, Ore., to report for duty with an Army Medical Corps unit. This work, said he, was "just what I've always wanted to do." He emphasized that his c.o. ideas remained unchanged...
...most serious confusion was among high-ranking officers in the pier shed: handsome, urbane Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, Commandant of the District (since transferred to command of the Eastern Sea Frontier), the captain of the port, Coast Guard officers, the district material officer. Said the report: "The Commandant did not consider himself either in charge ... or to be the responsible naval officer present. He considered the Normandie to be under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Ships and of the district material officer. . . . He considered the fire department to be in charge of the fire." He considered himself merely...