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Many of you have in your veins German and Italian blood, but remember that these ancestors of yours so loved freedom that they gave up home and country to cross the ocean in search of liberty...
...Sangerville, Maine in 1874. After graduation from Bowdoin College he worked two years in the New York office of a paper manufacturer. Then came news of the Yukon gold strike, and Oakes rushed off to prospect. He found no gold there. In the next 13 years of a persevering search he found none in Alaska, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, West Africa, the Belgian Congo, South Africa, Mexico, California or Nevada...
Thus last March Painter George Diddle addressed U.S. painters picked by the War Department to record the war. The painters will now have to search for their own stars: Congress has refused to put up the project's funds (a requested $125,000 out of the $71,500,000,000 of the 1943-44 Army appropriation bill...
...hard-muscled youngster paused as he monkeyed up the ladder from the conning tower. "Permission-to-come-on-the-bridge-relieve-the-stern-lookout-sir?" he rattled off in a breath. The officer of the deck muttered: "Granted," returned to his own search of the darkness. Aft, the fresh-eyed lookout took the heavy Navy binoculars from the man on watch, began to scan his sector. Then his voice lifted over the wet mumble of the charging diesel: "Gunfire bearing one seven...
Like all submarinemen, lookouts must have sound health and intelligence and a stable temperament. Keen eyesight and color sense beyond the average are needed. But the most important quality in a good lookout is what Dr. Shilling calls "motivation." He must search actively, not passively. He must have a desire to see which overcomes the dulling effect...