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Word: boated (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems clear that Hitler had no consistent program for the navy and that he had a far less coherent plan for the war than he is generally credited with. The most striking revelation of his weakness is in the figures on U-boat losses. When the U.S. entered the war, nearly 250 U-boats were available; in the single month of June 1942, the Germans sank 145 ships. But in the months to come, the tide turned, as anti-submarine measures became effective. In the last four months of the war, with Doenitz running the navy (after Raeder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Suicide Spirit | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Although the University Club has one-time stars of Brown, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, and MIT in its ranks, it, like the current Crimson varsity, is somewhat obscured by such teams as the Harvard Club and Union Boat Club. As a result, Coach Barnaby expects a "close and interesting" match...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Squash Team Opposes University Club Today | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

...Harvard Club, current league leaders, is led by Don Cornish, ranking state player and captain of the Crimson in 1933, and by Dave Mittel, who also is goalie coach of the current varsity hockey team. The Union Boat Club has so many champions and ex-champions that it enters three "A" teams in the league...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Squash Team Opposes University Club Today | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

Every week an old U.S. Navy crash boat, renamed the Marlin, shoves off from Fort-de-France, Martinique. Aboard are 4O-odd brightly turbaned native women, carrying demijohns and wicker baskets and headed for the British island of St. Lucia, a five-hour ride across the choppy blue Caribbean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CARIBBEAN: The Traffickers | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...avowed campus Marxists, and even one Dixiecrat. A Daily Cardinal poll showed students about evenly split between Truman and Dewey; they were also vaguely internationalist, and convinced that Russia would have to be stopped. The Cardinal, though, seemed more exercised by such issues as racial discrimination at the University Boat House and whether or not Harry Stuhldreher should have been replaced as football coach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The First Hundred Years | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

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