Word: junior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unfortunately the Navy didn't have time to send many of these men through midshipmen's schools or even to indoctrinate them, at first. So these junior executives, bond salesmen, tie clerks and miscellaneous experts in their early 30s were commissioned as lieutenants junior grade or even full lieutenants. They donned uniforms, and it was hoped that some day they would see fit and be able to carry out the duties of an officer in the U.S. Navy. Many filled the bill; some, to the eventual discredit of the Navy, never...
When Army's classy backfield combination of Doc Blanchard and Junior Davis turned up on TIME'S cover three weeks ago, it was only the second time in four years that TIME had put an athlete on its cover. Except for baseball's Mel Ott (July 2, 1945), no sports figure-for obvious reasons -had made the cover since two months before Pearl Harbor. Some sportsmen, who are among the most superstitious of mortals, considered this a good thing for all concerned...
Even if you know nothing about camera technique, you may soon be taking clear, indoor snapshots of Junior. The Army Signal Corps has developed a parent-proof camera with built-in sunlight. All you have to do-indoors or outdoors, day or night-is focus on the subject and pull the trigger. The camera does the rest...
...meeting this evening, the Student Council will choose a Nominating Committee to select candidates for six vacant Council seats. An election, slated for December, will fill the ranks to the normal number with the new members to be picked from the Sophomore, Junior, and Senior classes. Additional nominations will be accepted by Clinton M. Ritchie '47, Council president...
...Churchill and Bevin sped Attlee to Washington with the clearest statement yet of British purposes. The British Government (but not the entire British public) was willing to pay high for a new Big Two-the U.S. and Britain. Furthermore, the British Government was willing, even anxious, to be the junior partner in the alliance...