Word: walsh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Present head of Maryknoll is slight, twinkling-eyed Bishop James Edward Walsh, who entered Maryknoll its first year and was in the first overseas contingent. He became U.S. Catholicism's first missionary bishop in 1927, when he was consecrated vicar apostolic of Kongmoon. With 18 years' experience in China, including the anti-foreign riots of the '20s, Bishop Walsh says: "We have already faced more critical moments in the past few years than anything we anticipate from the present war. . . . Maryknoll missioners are staying where they are and doing what they...
Billy J. Pettis, Benjamin Peirce instructor in Mathematics, who was drafted a year ago, has been the Math Department's only war loss to date. Professor Joseph L. Walsh, in addition, has surrendered his post as chairman of the Department, but at the moment, is still teaching. Professor Marshall H. Stone replaced Walsh as departmental chief...
Jesse Jones preaching business as usual and letting us in for a serious rubber shortage; Senator Walsh asking that our navy be called back to defend continental America; Churchill withholding Indian independence in the face of a desperate threat to Britain's eastern empire: these are only symptoms of an attitude that is costing us lives now, and may cost us victory later. It is an attitude that contrasts strangely with the willingness of the Russians to destroy the Dniepropetrousk Dam, the greatest achievement of their nation, because they could look forward to building a better dam when...
...When the Cities Service Empire went down, torpedoed and burning off Florida, 30 were saved, eleven lost. Said John Walsh, wiper: "I saw our captain on a life raft. He and some of the other men were on it and the current was sucking them into the burning oil around the tanker. I last saw the captain going into a sheet of orange flame. Some of the fellows said he screamed. I didn't hear him. . . . Monroe Reynolds was with me for a while. He was screaming that he was going blind. . . . Gus, the quartermaster, was with...
Engineering drawing is necessary not only for the draftsman but also for the shopman or machinist if he is to read the engineer's plans easily and intelligently. A mechanic or machinist trained in drafting and structural visualization has a great advantage over the ordinary mechanic, according to Walsh...