Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep the Admiral idle." The Admiral, weathered, wrinkled, tough as a winter apple, smiled broadly. As full of energy as a boy, he is far happier when he is bouncing around on inspection tours aboard his tooth-shaking, 245-foot yacht The Isabel than when he sits in his shore office in Manila's Mars-man Building, overlooking the Bay where most of his fleet anchors. According to precedent, he should have bowed out of the Navy five months ago. But when he reached the age limit of 64, Franklin Roosevelt decided that Tommy Hart was indispensable...
Other American League teams with large followings: the brand-new Washington Lions, managed by Ching Johnson, onetime Ranger star; the Philadelphia Rockets, managed by Danny Cox, another famed old Ranger; the Springfield (Mass.) Indians, not only managed but owned by Eddie Shore, the bruising old Boston Bruin, for more than a decade the biggest crowd puller of them...
...From midway on the eastern shore of Lake Ladoga to Lake Onega, thence directly north almost to the White Sea, thence northwestward to the region of Salla, which Russia took from Finland in 1940. These boundaries would include almost all of Soviet Karelia, would give Finland a more easily defended frontier than at present...
Next, the Cansinos took a four-week engagement aboard one of California's notorious gambling ships off the Long Beach shore. That venture was a flop. Between acts, Eduardo fished off the ship, caught a fishhook in his finger and went to bed with an infection. Rita tried to carry the show alone, soon gave it up. "The management didn't think I had enough Spanish seductiveness," says she. "I was 15 at the time, and the only thing that really aroused me was food...
James L. Oakes, 3rd of Wilnetter, Illinois and North Shore Country Day; Wigglesworth Hall...