Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time the Navy had helped out the Army at a river. In 1863 Admiral David Farragut sailed monitors, frigates and gunboats up the Mississippi, gave vital help to General Grant in the siege of Vicksburg...
United States does precisely that. With Cinemactor David Niven, now a lieutenant colonel in the British Army, acting as narrator, it shows first New York, which "isn't America," then traces U.S. history from the landing at Plymouth, through the Revolution, the Civil War, the settling of the West, winding up with a panorama of the current U.S. scene. Typical of the tone that makes United States so successful is the commentary on the Revolution: "The men of Washington's Army were no longer British subjects resisting the armed forces of their king. They were Americans, fighting...
Memorial Hall range will be used for the firing. Scheduled to compete are the following, all of the NROTC: Charles L. Coll, James F. McGorrigan, Thomas W. James, David A. Williamson, Edwin N. McGlew, John F. Dolan, Robert W. Sanders, Herbert Keppler, and Joseph J. Berstein. Comdr. Havemeyer plans to have firing for the Bupers NROTC pistol competition completed...
...obsolete man. He might have liked to be Governor General of Canada, but there was scant chance of it-not so long as straitlaced Bachelor Mackenzie King was the Dominion's Prime Minister. Australia had already received his brother Gloucester. And the British were not likely to make David's Wally Vicereine of India. Perhaps France and conspicuous unemployment were inevitable...
Since the repeal of prohibition, U.S. women have made great strides toward alcoholic equality with men. In last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. David Benjamin. Rotman produced a chart showing that the ratio of female to male alcoholic addicts in Chicago climbed from...