Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army officers climbed into the hold of the Mar Cantabrico, found 32 field kitchens which the Army had sold as junk, sternly forbade the ship to sail until the stenciled "U. S. Army" was painted out on the kitchens. Customs agents forced a big crate of shoes to be torn open because it weighed 400 lb. and they thought shoes should not weigh so much...
...game. All are mindful of the anxiety of undergraduates and others for the welfare of football, and it is hoped that through frequent exchange of views and frank discussions of our problems we shall be able to continue to play this game with the highest type of sportsman- ship...
...murder, and by doing it shocked Margaret (who was just emerging from her pathological state) for what looked like keeps. So he went back to his craggy home to live like a hermit. Smoked out by treacherous government soldiers, he decided to go to America. On the ship whom should he see but Margaret. This time the shock was pleasant for both parties...
What he cannot get out of his delighted memory are the japes,pranks,hearty horseplay and lurching humor that apparently ballasted every ship he ever served...
...gunrooms and wardrooms that housed him and his mates were no places for sisters, cousins or aunts. Even as a midshipman he was a hearty: sometimes the sea made him sick, but never thoughts of home. He has not forgotten the name of a single one of his ships, or where they took him-the Mediterranean, the Pacific, the Bering-Sea, the South Seas-and every ship, cruise and station gave him an anecdote-souvenir to tuck away in his sea chest...