Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy "relaxees," also a new uniform. Bell bottomed, one-striped cuffs, and those inevitable 13 buttons. Plus this, a slight stay at Portsmouth or some other rest resort and then... a lovely 1943 model long handled mop, a bucket of water, a broad expanse of deck and thou beside if on the bounding main, resting between swabs. Of course, if you'd rather not relax, you can always...
...hand. I finally got a seat in the men's room of a Pullman car. Arriving at Springfield, Mo. ... I once again held a reservation for an upper berth, but was informed very pleasantly by the conductor that the people in Kansas City had had a slight mix-up and that John Q. Civilian was once again in my berth. I rode once again upon a collapsing suitcase into Atlanta, and decided to take a chance on reporting a day late, and get some sleep, which I did in a fine hotel there. Having previously made arrangements for Pullman...
...planned to seize the hills in the darkness and then move up the valley to the town. Now it was impossible to proceed with our plan. The lieutenant colonel in command of the 2nd Battalion made a quick decision. He ordered his soldiers to get on and behind a slight ridge of ground to the left of our road...
...proud, slight (105 lb.) man, known professionally as Tom, is the owner of one of the strangest stomachs in existence. This stomach was the subject last week of a book (Human Gastric Function; Oxford University Press; $4.75), by Drs. Stewart Wolf and Harold G. Wolff of Manhattan's New York Hospital. Says famed Physiologist Walter B. Cannon in his foreword: "The functions of the stomach have never been investigated with the detailed care, the skill and ingenuity" that Drs. Wolf & Wolff display in their researches on Tom's stomach...
...Slight discipline is expected for the ASTRP men who will probably have to take the 11 hours of military training and conditioning required in the regular ASTP course, announced Dr. Perkins. He added that the prescribed course will undoubtedly include English, Engineering Drawing, Mathematics, Physics, and the other sciences assigned in the Army basic...