Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Me.) on the 50th anniversary of his own graduation. Last week Bowdoin, still one of the nation's top-ranking small colleges, celebrated its 150th anniversary. For 2,160 of its bold alumni there are stars in Bowdoin's World War II service flag; for 31 of the boldest the stars are gold...
...Robert E. Peary, who nailed the college banner beside the U.S. flag at the North Pole...
Result of the policy: the Air Forces average of general officers' ages is much lower than in the ground Army, even farther below the seniority-bound list of Navy flag officers...
...Acquired a fleet of 21 coastal ships to bring food to the "hard-pressed people of Rome and Vatican City." The ships will operate between Rome and Genoa, flying the Vatican flag...
...small Vatican flag has two equal vertical stripes, yellow and white, carries the papal insignia. Until 1860 the Vatican had a small armed navy, used chiefly against pirates...