Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From 7:30 to 9:30 o'clock girls connected in practically any way with the University can splash around in the pool's 225,000 gallons of chlorinated water, whip out a bottle of Gaby, close their eyes and make believe they're back at that favorite beach or lake-all for four bits...
Most of the regular attendees are good swimmers, who think persons who lie on the beach and never go near the water are "pretty pathetic." Few of them realize that the Pool is built of ceramic tiling to prevent expansion over its exact 75 by 40 feet dimensions, slopes in depth from 8 1-2 to 11 1-2 feet, and is warmed to a Cape Coddish 73 degree...
...radiators. After three weeks of such operation, a smug technician heard the station over his automobile receiver on the way home from Wellesley somewhere in the Newtons. F.C.C. has strict limits on the radiation of unlicensed stations, so the Network turned from the radiators to the cold water pipes...
...Confiscate Anything." A short walk beyond, Housewife Yu Chi-ping is sweeping debris from the dark cliffside cave in which her family lives. The table, two chairs, and a chest are gone, Yu laments. The water jar and crockery are smashed. There comes to mind the Communist high command's directive before the Communists withdrew: "To keep our troops fit... confiscate anything. . . . For firewood we shall use doors, windows, furniture. . . . Cooking vessels must be carried away. What can't be destroyed must be buried. . . . We must sacrifice for our sacred land of democracy and our president...
...G.I.s stay healthy? The doctors' reasons: good food, plenty of water and salt, scientifically designed clothes, insect control, new drugs (e.g., atabrine). Wartime scientific research, which solved many of the problems of tropical living, also debunked a few old notions: that meat-eating in the tropics is bad, that white men cannot do physical labor in the hot season, that only "mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday...