Word: argus
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...earthquake jolted Storekeeper Luhn out of the fifth grade, set him to selling newspapers. After service as an artillery private in World War I, he went back to San Francisco to work for the man who owned the shop he owns now. (His partner, astute Mrs. Alice Argus Brady, was bookkeeper for the former owner.) His 96-year-old grandmother takes care of Bachelor Luhn. He says of her: "She is very important...
Algiers in the dawn of Nov. 8 was a white, triangular wound against the dun hills behind the harbor. Beyond its jetties, well out in the Mediterranean, a great naval concentration stood in from Gibraltar: the Royal Navy's battleships Nelson and Rodney, the aircraft carrier Argus, cruisers, destroyers and transports laden with U.S. troops...
...journalist, no OCD coordinator, but a youth right out of college and training for an Army Air Corps commission wrote the week's most penetrating comment on morale. Published in the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader was a letter written back home by handsome young Flyer Jerald B. Davis...
...last week spotters at Algeciras, Spain, near Gibraltar, saw two big British transports go through the straits eastward, escorted by two cruisers and a destroyer. The next day they saw the battle cruiser Repulse, the aircraft carrier Argus and five destroyers set out to catch up with these ships and others which had apparently steamed ahead. There was no question but that the British were determined to get this convoy through. The. weather was stormy and dark, and therefore favorable...
...championship in 1937 and lately squired Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow. Active commander is Squadron Leader William Erwin Gibson Taylor, 35, formerly of the 5th Fighting Squadron, U. S. Naval Air Corps (aboard the carrier Lexington). He joined Britain's Fleet Air Arm last year, served on the carriers Argus, Furious, Glorious (sunk at Narvik). Most piquant Eagle name: Harry La Guardia of Hartford, Conn. (no kin to New York City's Mayor...