Word: willetts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ensign Willett heard the lookout sing...
...Ensign Willett, commander of the Navy gun crew, staggered to his feet, went to the after gun and opened fire on the smaller of the two raiders. The forward gun, under the command of the second mate, blazed away at the large raider. Other hands busied themselves with the wounded...
...nearly half an hour the battle raged, two raiders against one freighter. Heavily outgunned, the merchantman made every shell count. Ensign Willett saw the stern of the smaller raider burst into flame. Then a shell blew up the merchantman's main boiler, reduced her speed to one knot. A few seconds later another shell hit the magazine...
...Roullier Art Galleries in Chicago. Amid the sherry drinking and socialite fun of the opening, attended by Husband Robert Maynard Hutchins and other prominent models for the works on display, there was one cynosure-a bronze piece called Young Mother. This was a life-sized nude that Mrs. Howard Willett, ex-wife of a Chicago trucking millionaire, commissioned the artist to do of her daughter and grandchild. Designed to occupy an outdoor niche at a country place, the figure is an ingenious arrangement of mother, without infant, balanced with taut buttocks and tender, inclining head against the weight...
...William Willett, the sun-struck Briton who fathered daylight saving, died in 1915 as warring European nations adopted "summer time." Willett argued for an 80-minute setback. U.S. Daylight Saving Father is Robert Garland, 78, of Pittsburgh, who last week opposed the President's plan for year-round daylight saving, said it would work hardship in winter...