Word: rough
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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What these fishermen saw was the U. S. Navy's newest gadget: its growing squadron of motor torpedo boats, getting a sea test in rough water. Returning to the Brooklyn Navy Yard at nightfall each day with his five waterbugs, handsome Lieut. Earl Stevens Caldwell, youngest (and lowest-ranking) squadron commander in the Navy, was able to put down a favorable report. The new PTs (patrol torpedo boats) were as seaworthy as the designer of their prototype, famed Britisher Hubert Scott-Paine, had said they were. In 15-ft. waves they charged along at 40 knots, in smooth seas...
Young Pittman made inquiries at Seattle. Dude Lewis was well known. The slim Southerner was straightway taken in to a law office that was as luxuriously civilized as Seattle was rough and pioneer; greeted by a redhaired, red-bearded man of extreme elegance-James Hamilton Lewis, then only a dude lawyer, but soon to be a Congressman from Washington, later a Senator from Illinois...
British hearts sank. The Rangitiki and Cornish City were members of a big convoy, perhaps 30 or 40 merchantmen, that had left Halifax a week prior, bound straight across to Great Britain. Even allowing for rough weather and zigzagging, they should have been nearly across instead of only halfway between Cape Race, N. F. and North Ireland. They were in a stretch between where their warship escorts from Canada left them and their escorts from Britain would pick them up. None of them was equipped to fight anything except submarines or armed merchantmen of their own size and speed...
Parkman, De Voto explained, was "Hasty Pudding man," one of Boston's best. He was offended by the rough talk and dress of the pioneers, and stressed these and other picturesque but relatively inconsequential details, but didn't sense the real significance of the tremendous westward migration...
...colleges. The technical changes in warfare and the realization of the danger of the crisis make this move away from the cavalier spirit that pervaded the campuses of 1917 both desirable and understandable. Training an army now is a highly technical process. The German Panzer division has replaced the Rough Riders of T.R. as the basic conception of an army. Panzer divisions can only be trained by the War Department. The inadequacy of college lectures in assisting draftees has been borne out by the lack of encouragement, in marked contrast with the last war, from the planners of our future...