Guadalcanal Diary Excerpt Recounts Savo Raid and Shore Battles
The narrator describes a night of heavy shelling near Guadalcanal and Savo island. He notes evidence of an earlier enemy landing, ships hit and ablaze, and casualties at Kukum and Taivu. Dive bombers and fighters damaged Japanese landing boats while shoreside wounded are tended, underscoring ongoing Japanese landings and the need to halt them.
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Savo
Kukum
Savo Island
Kukui
Little
Gregory
Vandegrift
Cape Experance
Taivu
Cape Esperance
Taiwa
Does weather shape audience reactions to speakers and singers
Albert E Wiggam discusses weather and mental alertness with reference to Yale geographer Ellsworth Huntington. A 1938 Connecticut storm is cited where students scored 93 on a test after years of 75, suggesting bright days improve performance. The piece also notes contrasts between office workers and salesmen per Dodge and comments on child prodigies achieving higher-earning careers earlier.
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Conrad Thibault
Ellsworth Huntington
Yale
New England
Connecticut Agricultural College
Huntington
Puzzling Crossword Clues From U S Relief Theme
A dense list of crossword clues and partial answers covering a relief and rehabilitation theme with multiple across and down entries including costs measures and abbreviations for places and titles. The puzzle references various short forms and foreign terms across categories such as anatomy geography and music.
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