Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a dog fight with 14 Jap planes, Lieut. Clarence Sandford had been forced down for lack of gas and had stripped off his clothes and swum three miles to shore, where he collapsed. When he came to, on the beach of Bremer Island, north of Australia, two black aborigines with spears upraised were standing over...
...subs worked close to shore. Off the southeastern coast, a U-boat slipped in shore and sank two barges and a tug with gunfire. She stood so close by that the barge crews could hear the commands of the officers on her deck...
Said General MacArthur a couple of days before his own departure (his trip was "far worse than ours"): "Do you want to go now?" MacArthur shook hands said: "I believe you will make it." They traveled by boat between the islands, traveling only at night and holing up on shore...
Meanwhile the Jap apparently was thinking of trying to storm the Manila Bay fortresses from the south. On the Cavite shore he began to gather small boats. When they were massed into a good target, the guns of Forts Hughes, Drum and Frank (south of Corregidor) again went into action, shot them to kindling...
...oldest of the U.S.'s 250 country day schools (Baltimore's Gilman preceded it by ten years), Riverdale was an early model for a new group of schools that now includes some of the finest and most famed in the U.S.-Winnetka's North Shore Country Day, New York's Horace Mann, Philadelphia's Friends Central, St. Louis' Country Day and John Burroughs, Cambridge's Browne & Nichols, Wilmington's Tower Hill, Brooklyn's Polytech...