Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arsenal included no un-British Activities Committee. He went to the bottom of French revolutionary ideas, explained them in terms his countrymen could understand, sharpened his own opposed principles, and expressed them with clarity and passion. Jean Jacques Rousseau, in his naivete, believed that man had been all good in "a state of nature," and that he was only corrupted by wrong social institutions. Sweep these away, substitute institutions blueprinted by "reason," and man emerges perfect or, at least, readily perfectible...
Amid the ruins of postwar Munich, thousands of homeless and hungry kids like the Panthers hung around U.S. Army camps, begging food and money, stealing when they could not beg. The Panthers were more resourceful than most. In the summer of 1946, the Panthers dug up a formidable arsenal of pistols, carbines and even one light machine gun abandoned by the Wehrmacht near Munich...
Membership in this club, perhaps the most exclusive in the University, is open only to single scullers enrolled in the University who can churn their way to Arsenal bridge and back to Weld, a four mile course, in 30 minutes...
Then there is the tale of Charlie Rheault, who, after long practice, streaked to Arsenal and back in 29 minutes 59.9 seconds on June 1, 1950. After the test, Rheault wrote in the Club...
...Armory and Arsenal at Springfield, Mass, retired an old civil service employee who had spent the past 34 years there working on rifles. At a testimonial dinner, shy, Canadian-born John C. Garand, 65, inventor of the Army's basic M-1 (Garand) rifle, was given, as a farewell trophy, the millionth M-1 which was made during World War II (over 4,000,000 have been made for the Army). Said Gunsmith Garand, looking at his famous product: "I've never felt bad about designing the rifle even though its only real...