Word: existing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neither stockpile nor synthetic "both together will be enough to provide for the needs of our great new Army and Navy plus our civilian requirements as they now exist...
...Face. Somervell's Services of Supply did not exist three months ago. It is a product of Franklin Roosevelt's wholesale reorganization of the U.S. Army, which came out of the mill with a different and handsomer face than soldiers had ever seen before. The cumbersome General Staff was pared down; it took 50% of its personnel from the Air Forces. Below the General Staff the old complexity of arms, services and spare parts was bunched into only three agencies: Ground Forces, Air Forces and Services of Supply...
Symbolic of the decline of Freshman Class unity brought about by the admission of first-year men to the Houses and by the wartime accelerated program, the Freshman Dining Hall has ceased to exist. The Class of '45 and preceding classes knew the ivy-covered building across Quincy Street from the President's house as the place where they met their classmates three times daily for meals and also as a spacious recreation hall containing common rooms, libraries, and billiard rooms reserved exclusively for "Yardlings." The great and long-to-be remembered social event of the Freshman year, the Jubilee...
...some points TIME patently erred, but the Green Bowlers did exist (many Navy men to the contrary), even if they weren't sinister...
...dark hours. It makes me know what the American heritage is. It makes me realize our finest youth has a vision that our big shots lack. And it makes me believe that Ayres' creed, and mine, may win through in a world where some men like Crowe exist. It makes me realize, humbly, that there is something in the heart of fighters like him to which we owe honor, before which we are puny...