Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Late one afternoon bathers, startled by the explosion, saw smoke pouring from the freighter close to shore. They saw U.S. subchasers, planes and blimps scattering bombs and depth charges. Then a second freighter shuddered from an explosion...
...only course open to him. Said he: "We have no army, no military resources, no military skill, and nonviolence is the only thing we can rely on. Of course we can't prevent invasion: the Japs will land, but they will land on an inhospitable shore. We do not need to kill a single Jap; we simply give them no quarter. We may be unable to withstand their terror and may have to go through a course of subjection worse than the present state, but we will carry...
...movie, The Secret of the Loch, provided four weeks' work for 20 unemployed men. Captain D. J. Munro,R.N. (retired), proposed to form a Loch Ness Monster Co., Ltd., to sell shares for a shilling each, and to put up watchtowers on the loch shore staffed by Navy men equipped with telescopic cameras, powerful binoculars, range finders, stop watches. In Germany, the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung announced that the monster had been captured, was on view in Edinburgh...
...monster can live forever. Last week it was revealed that two Scottish foresters had found on the shore of the loch a huge dead thing. It was identified by experts as a basking shark, 24 ft. long. This was obviously the Loch Ness Monster, and this was obviously the monster's end. Since there were no signs of injury, it seemed most likely that it had died...
...Corps, also based at the Business School. During a 12 weeks course given last summer, 392 men, including John Roosevelt, the President's son, were trained in the problems and methods of supply. Upon graduation a part were assigned to service at sea, the remainder being given posts at shore bases. A longer course was given during the past winter from September to March. At that time another 250 men were graduated to join the first group, a majority of which by this time had seen service in the Pacific battle areas...