Word: 3rd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...physical victims. He had acted with great speed and intelligence at the beginning of the Civil War, won promotion handily, justified it in the first battles. Then on April 6, 1862, he was camped at Crump's Landing on the Tennessee River, in command of the 3rd Division, while Grant assembled his divisions at Pittsburg Landing, six miles away. Grant did not know that Albert Sidney Johnston, with 40,000 men, was near. At dawn lightning struck, and Grant's Army of the Tennessee was nearly driven into the river. Grant, off in Savannah, Tenn. at the time...
Admitting that the '48 Nominations Committee had badly mishandled its job, Levin H. Campbell, 3rd '48, fornier Council president, said, "The Council has an obligation, as the final election authority, to salvage what it can and revise the procedure, regardless of the extra time and expense...
...captured much of the sensuous exuberance of the age of Drake, Spenser and Sidney. One was a self-portrait, at 30, fine-featured and candid-eyed, painted against Hilliard's favorite indigo-blue background. The biggest (see cut) was a 10⅛-inch painting of the buccaneering 3rd Earl of Cumberland. Besides portraits of courtiers, there were miniatures of a lovesick youth leaning against a tree, entangled in roses; a grave young man fingering a locket against a background of flames. Their flesh tones had faded, but they still shone with immaculate drawing, clean, jewel-like color...
...trim. The Navy has fleets in both oceans, each built around a striking arm of six big carriers. Within 90 days it could bring the first of the zipper fleet out of its cocoons, within a year complete the job. The Marines have their 2nd Division and a reorganized 3rd Brigade; the 1st Division is on its way home from China. Between them, the Navy and Marines have 6,000 aircraft, almost all designed only for the support of the fleets and amphibious operations...
...Lieutenant Charles Henry Fiske, 3rd, Scholarship for study at the University of Cambridge, England, was awarded to Edmond La Beaume Cherbonnier 2G, a graduate cum laude in geological science...