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...waters of Puget Sound separate the mountainous, timbered Olympic Peninsula from the Washington mainland. There is only one point in the 20,000 square miles covered by the Sound where the Peninsula shore and the shore of the mainland are close-the famed, fabled Narrows at Tacoma, 85 miles from the mouth of the Sound, where the surging water boils through a deep passage, a little short of a mile wide. No one can swim the Narrows; the tides are too swift, the water too cold. The Narrows make one of the Northwest's dramatic views-the dark green...
...headlines, we over here have become inured to its details. Night bombings are no longer so scusational as they were in August. The invasion of Greece seems like old stuff. We tend to forget that each hour of bombing causes more loss of property than the fall of the Tacoma bridge. The phrase "severe damage to personnel." so carelessly bandied around by newspaper strategists, actually means that more blood has been poured onto the soil of Europe...
...Robert L. McMurtrle '43, Gorham, N. H.; William G. Manson '41, Murfreesboro, Tenn.; Robert G. Martin '43, Detroit, Mich.; Robert E. Massey '42, Moline, III.; Arthur T. Von Mehren '43, Minneapolis, Minn.; Robert E. Middleton '43, Columbus, O.; Frank G. Miller '43, Le Roy, Kans.; Maynard M. Miller '43, Tacoma, Wash.; Vern K. Miller '42, Milwaukee, Wis.; David H. Mitchell ocC, Campbeilsville, Ky.; Robert W. Moeva '42, La Crosse, Wis.; Elbert M. Moffatt, Jr. '41, Bombay, India...
Christopher J. Sotirakis '41, Clarksburg, W. Va.; Douglas C. Stenerson '42, St. Paul, Minn.; Robert B. Stokley '41, Galion, O.; Malcolm W. P. Strandberg '41, Tacoma, Wash.; Kingdon W. Swayne '41, George School, Pa.; Dwight D. Taylor, Jr. '41, Excelsior, Minn.; Elmer H. Taylor '42, Frederick, III.; Richard N. Thomas '42, Omaha, Nebr.; James B. Tobias '41, Fremont, O.; Hugh G. Voorhies, Jr. '42, San Diego, Calif.; John A. Washington '43, Clarksburg, W. Va.; Robert K. Weary '43, Junction City, Kans.; George W. Webber '42, Des Moines, Ia.; Richard L. Weinberg '43, Memphis, Tenn.; Emanuel G. Weiss '41, Elkins Park...
...economic order and the system of government based upon it. Underlying these two themes was another-his denial of the doctrine of class struggle in America, a denial that he preached in terms of his own career, and which he dramatized by talking to stockyard workers who listened silently, Tacoma factory workers who listened thoughtfully, Michigan automobile workers who greeted him with boos...