Word: weres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Its genocidal plan for making Midway Island safe for Homo Americanus volitans makes one suspect that the Navy is not up on its Ancient Mariner. If it were, the Navy would know that the penalty for killing an albatross is disaster at sea [see cut].
I was a member of the crew of the U.S.S. Denver, and after 15 years was surprised to hear she had the honor of firing the first shot in the Leyte landings. She also participated in the Battle of Surigao Strait, which I recall quite vividly, as the entire ship...
Four straight Harvard losses followed, and the varsity finds itself today clearly favored for the first time since the period of darkness fell. It has been a dismal six years, to be sure, but things were not always thus.
Apparently the spectators in the stands could barely keep awake. But Crimson fans were used to excellence. With a man named Percy Haughton beginning to help with the coaching once in a while, Harvard was rapidly building towards greatness. The Crimson went undefeated in 1901, beating Yale, 22 to 0...
The show is funny. But the humorous part of the program could be funnier, and truer to Twain if some of the cuttings were better. If Twain is "America's funniest humorist," as all the advertisements say, and even if he isn't--much of his charm rests on an...