Word: mahan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the old: Louisa M. Alcott's Little Women and Little Men; the novels of E. Phillips Oppenheim; Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan's studies on the influence of sea power in history; John Bartlett's Familiar Quotations; and above all the masterwork of "the mother of level measurements," Fannie Farmer. Her Boston Cooking-School Book has sold over 2,000,000 copies, is rapidly creeping up on Gone With the Wind, which has sold over 3,000,000 copies. Such perennials ("back list") can be the most dependably profitable part of any publishing business that...
...will come under the supervision of Lieutenant Commander Roger W. Cutler '11, wh odestroyed a German submarine by dropping a bomb from his patrol plane on it in July, 1918. At Jacksonville they will also be kept der Gene Tunney and Lieutenant Comphysically fit by Lieutenant Commanmander Edward W. Mahan '16, who was fullback on the Crimson varsity...
...World War I, Joseph Taussig never reached top rank (his biggest job: Chief of Staff of the U.S. Fleet). But, for a Navy man who had his rare, hazardous quality of dissent, he did very well. The Navy for years discouraged and repressed the late, great Alfred Thayer Mahan while he was evolving the doctrines which still guide the navies of the world. Vice Admiral Taussig, in his idle years, may well remember that Mahan on active duty never rose above a captaincy, got to be a Rear Admiral only after he had retired...
Captain William Dilworth Puleston, U.S.N., onetime Chief of Naval Intelligence and author of the authoritative Mahan: The Life and Work of Captain Alfred Thayer Mahon, understands the Japanese people principally as sailors good and true. An old-line imperialist, he sees the Far Eastern issue in terms of the Open Door...
Bright-faced German boys in tanks, at torpedo tubes, squinting over bombsights, had finally done Experience's job. The British had learned their lesson bloodily, at firsthand, in the broad sunlight of the day Mahan had foretold. The sun rises later in the U. S. But there too at last Mahan's day was dawning...