Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took it to Harriet Swift of the Boston Public Library. She turned the leaves, noticed a pattern of pinholes on page 101. The holes pierced letters, formed a simple code message. Its exciting intelligence: the King of Calf Island had buried a treasure on Strong Island, off the shore of Cape...
...gale of war had blown itself out, and now a big swell was running: labor unrest. It crashed on every industrial shore in the nation (see Labor), spread beyond the factories. In strike-stormy Detroit, cops clashed with labor-union men picketing a meeting of Rabble-rouser Gerald L. K. Smith's followers, and men went down under blows of swinging nightsticks. High-school children in New York City, Chicago and Gary, Ind., swirled out in a rash of protests, racial disputes and wholesale hooliganism (see EDUCATION...
Sailor's Delight. In Seattle, a sailor was fished out of the harbor by shore patrolmen; a woman passerby had started to rescue him but let him slip back into the water when she saw that he had no pants...
...arrange for this printing, Bernard Clayton (who heads the Far-Eastern edition we print each week in Manila) had entered Tokyo a week ahead of our troops. His arrival on the electric train from Yokohama was prosaic enough, but a few days before the Japanese shore batteries had fired on the plane in which he flew up from Okinawa to be among the first Americans landed in Japan...
...written, with valid emotion, some fine humor and a laudable lack of pseudo-common-mannishness, these speeches should be an effective device for encouraging internationalism. The images which are set against them are even more so. Though some of the material-notably some great shots of the Norman shore-is familiar from newsreels, it has the power of a musical theme, triumphantly recapitulated...