Harper's Magazine, Volume 186Harper & Brothers, 1942 - American literature |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 81
Page 135
... ship had " E " for gunnery efficiency painted on her turrets . If it was there , good ; the rest of the inspection was easy . The chief business of a war- ship is to shoot . For the rest he had one of those ex- tremely mobile faces that ...
... ship had " E " for gunnery efficiency painted on her turrets . If it was there , good ; the rest of the inspection was easy . The chief business of a war- ship is to shoot . For the rest he had one of those ex- tremely mobile faces that ...
Page 171
... ship on your own front doorstep to some bloody little aircraft returning from a raid with one spare bomb . Among the minor trials of the middle watch are the porpoises which , with rel- ish and great agility , play submarines at night ...
... ship on your own front doorstep to some bloody little aircraft returning from a raid with one spare bomb . Among the minor trials of the middle watch are the porpoises which , with rel- ish and great agility , play submarines at night ...
Page 547
... ship by the government . There follows a period of cruising - the shakedown , which may take as much as six months for a battleship or a carrier . It is a time of adjustments , both of the mechanical order ( such as removing eleven non ...
... ship by the government . There follows a period of cruising - the shakedown , which may take as much as six months for a battleship or a carrier . It is a time of adjustments , both of the mechanical order ( such as removing eleven non ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Africa Alexander Woollcott American Armistice Day Army asked attack Bill bombers bombs boys Britain British butadiene called carrier cent civilian convoy course Cripps deck E.B. White economic Elkton enemy Europe fact farm farmers feel fight fire force foreign German girls Guadalcanal guns hand Haupt Henry Wallace Herbert Haupt hundred idea industry Jack Jaluit Japan Japanese Japs Jomard passage labor land leaders lend-lease living look ment military million Navy Nazi never night peace Pearl Harbor planes plant political President problem production radio Ross Russia seemed ship social South talk tanks tell thing tion to-day told torpedo town Tulagi turned U-boat union United Wasp workers Yorker young