Word: second
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...Guest. Eddie Craig was born (1896) in Danbury, Conn. His father (who is 78 and to whom Craig still writes a letter once a week) is a onetime Army medical officer. Eddie went to St. John's Military Academy at Delafield, Wis., jumped at a chance for a second lieutenancy in the Marines, sulked because he saw no action in World War I. His first overseas duty was in the Dominican Republic...
...Correspondent George McMillan, appears the apochryphal but illuminating story of what happened when the first marine reported for duty in 1775. "What, the hell is a marine?" barked the bewildered officer of the deck. "You go aft and sit down till I find out." A few minutes later the second marine-recruit reported aboard and was also sent aft. From the lofty eminence of his seniority, the first man scornfully contemplated the newcomer and snarled: "Listen, boy, you shoulda been in the old Corps...
...rear of the shell; when the explosive waves hit the point of the metal liner, the metal comes under immense pressure and acts like a thin fluid. Like a jet-propelled stream of toothpaste, the fluid metal spurts forward, at speeds up to 30,000 feet a second. The jet of liquid metal and gas can pierce more than eleven inches of armor plate. Shaped-charge shells are also equipped with rocket-like fins to give a steady flight without the spin of the standard artillery projectile...
...week also brought news from Margaret's elder sister Elizabeth. Elderly, efficient Nurse Helen Rowe, who has probably attended more royal babies than any woman alive, moved into Clarence House Tuesday to be ready for the momentarily expected birth of Elizabeth's second child. Buckingham Palace put the date at between August...
Salvos of artillery saluted her 50th birthday throughout the empire, but Britain's Queen Elizabeth saw in her second half-century quietly. At tea she sliced a small cake with pink and white icing, but no candles. In the evening a few close friends were invited to Sandringham to help the King toast her in champagne...