Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-06-26 | Page 19 | Frank Colby's

S Frank fays fay's S I i Just Take My Word for It LEARN A NEW WORD Have you ever heard of a place called MICRONESIA Perhaps not yet in n our war of liberation Micronesia is a place place- name that is becoming increasIngly increasingly significant It is the name of ot that group of Japanese oc islands in the central and western Pacific the Pacific the Marla Marianas Mari Marl a anas n a s ree MAH Carolines Caroline Marshall Gilbert pee-LOO pee Guam Yap and countless smaller islands which islands which have stood as a constant threat to allied lines of supply and communications The name is coined from the Greek small email mall and ne- ne so sos island Pronounce it First choice l kro uh MY uh Second choice 1 kroe llY NEE kroe huh now HOW DID IT START Hartford Why do they call them tanks C. C. C H. H B B. B Answer As I explained recently recently re re- re the British Colonel Colone E. E D Swinton who in 1915 drew the plans for the first tank originally nally used the name machine gun destroyer Later when work was begun on two experimental experimental mental machines they were spoken of In shop orders and correspondence as water carriers carriers carriers car car- for service in Mesopotamia mia to conceal the true nature of the machines The shorter term tank was inevitable But the word tank Itself has hasa a queer origin It stems from 1 the Latin stagnant l water Sir William Marris Marns Inthe in inthe inthe the London Spectator says The word tank reached this country from India where it signifies the slimy and pestiferous OU ous pools of lower Bengal and there is no stagnation on earth to surpass that of a Bengal tank S