Word: rowse
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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The Army architects who planned the Air Corps's Randolph Field near San Antonio made one mistake. They forgot about sidewalks, and people there have to walk in the paved streets or on the brown, famished grass. Otherwise the post is one of the Army's finest. On...
It was a bright moonlight night. Enough German planes were feinting at London to keep the night-flying defenders there preoccupied. Meantime wave after wave of heavy-laden bombers passed around and northwest to Coventry. All night they kept at it until they had dropped over 500 tons of high...
Trophies at Lough Gur came from all ages: stone axes, flint weapons and tools, a bronze bracelet and bronze pins, bone combs, glass beads, hand mills for grinding grain, whetstones, Viking silver, and, according to the diggers, the finest ceremonial circle of druid stones in Eire. In charge were Professor...
His Imperial Majesty invited foreign diplomats, Government officials and wearers of Imperial decorations into the Imperial Park to contemplate his chrysanthemums, arranged in martial rows and patterns of incredible genus and color, arrayed in booths as mountains, cascades, rivers. In the Palace. Hirohito performed certain religious mysteries, and read aloud...
For the casual observer finds the fire station, located in front of Mem Hall, a Republican cartoon of W.P.A. inaction. Everywhere shirt-sleeved men are loafing. In the third floor recreation room a dozen firefighters play penny ante, some of the more energetic shoot pool, and a few others watch...