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Like Gaul, all Harvard is divided into three parts, of which the Yard is the oldest and most fraught with ivy and tradition. Formerly the domain of the Freshman, the Yard will be occupied this summer by a large naval contingent and an equally numerous group of special summer school students. 1946 will inhabit the Houses, formerly reserved only for upperclassmen...
Curly-haired Pat Boland hardly ever talked in the House, worked quietly in the halls and cloakrooms which are the whip's domain. Fervent Bob Ramspeck has made many impassioned speeches for his favorite causes. But he also knows the slick-floored, smoky, gossip-filled cloakrooms as few Congressmen...
When a new work of art is brought into the museum, it first passes through the domain of Superintendent Milton Worthley where it is unpacked by Elmer Heaps, former Gloucester sailmaker who is now The Fogg's carpenter. Then the work is sent through a fixed routine from the registrar to photographers to technical department and finally to a gallery or the storeroom. This latter, a spacious hall in the basement, already contains hundreds of miscellaneous items from the chair President Conant sits in at Commencement and the University's Great Salt to a bottle with Dean Swift's seal...
Patiently, when the excitement abated, Admiral Chester William Nimitz pulled all the threads together into the big pattern that spelled victory. That particular task was over; now for the next one. He busied himself with the endless detail of new plans for operations over his vast domain, from Alaska to the continental shelf of Australia. There would be more battles, other carefully calculated sallies against the Jap. Some would be victories. Some might be defeats. Chester William Nimitz would send out the orders-and wait...
Wrote angry Sascha: "Air power is not a matter of numbers, but of proper strategy, tactics, psychological attitudes toward the new domain of conflict. . . ." The root of his criticism is that many Army, Navy and civilian officials now directing the U.S. air program still fail to grasp the fabulous possibilities of global air power...