Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's Mountaineering Club, ready to launch a full program of fall climbing, has a definite martial tinge in its activities. Last June, for example, in the Selkirk expedition, the Club tested special rations for the Air Corps. During the summer, special equipment was tested for the mountain troops and new types of field rations were studied under rigorous conditions...
Thus tested and proved last week was the comparatively new scheme to launch trains of gliders on the fly. In a war which has been a Pandora's Box of surprises in air strategy and tactics, U.S. ingenuity was off & away on a fresh, imaginative tack...
With Harvey Love taking charge of all the green men, and with only one launch available at the moment, many of the Freshmen have not moved up to the boats as fast as they might ordinarily. Tom Bolles and Bert Haines are scheduled to be back Monday and with more launches available, any Freshman who knows "which end to put in the water ought to be able to get out in a shell," according to Coach Love...
...barred from Port Moresby by great mountains. He would set the force down at Buna, near the head of a mountain road, primitive but passable, that led across to Port Moresby. Thus he could get at the thorn. Once he got rid of the thorn, he could launch his attack at thinly held northern Australia or spread east through the flanking island chain as his restless, never-idle sense of movement dictated...
Part of the Harvard University Band will back up Sylvia Sydney, current Cambridge Summer Theatre star, as she leads a rally sponsored by the Cambridge Women's War Savings Committee, in the Square today from noon to 1 o'clock. The rally will launch Cambridge's first war bond and stamp drive...