Word: whisler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the faculty and their appointments: Alan McNaughton, instructor in Greek and Latin and tutor in the Division of Ancient Languages; Edwin Mims, Jr., instructor in Government and tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics; Hubert Maxwell James, instructor in Physics; Benjamin Adsit Whisler, assistant in Sanitary Engineering...
...rear-line hospital. Another, younger man joins them; some time after this trio has formed its little community, an English prisoner, in the same predicament, is sent to them. The first blind, patriotic hatred of the three slowly turns to tolerance and friendship; a new German-English whisler language is invented. Then, slowly, one of the four grows worse and dies. The others are carried along in the hope of regaining normalcy: one dies after an operation; the Englishman and the younger German finally recover. Word comes that the Englishman has been exchanged; only after a long moment of consideration...