Word: midships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieutenant W. J. Salmon, who assumed duties as officer-in-charge of the midship men-officer group in middle September, has had over nine years active duty is the Navy. Salmon was graduated is 1938 from the Naval Academy and was first attached to the Battleship Pennsylvania (1) where he served until the summer...
...Seth Grey can't be with us at the Harvard Club blowout a week from next Monday. He's on a month's leave, Preparatory to re-entering as a Midship- man with the new class on June J. That's a tough reason for a vacation, as were the deals Fate handed out to Ken Seitz and George Webb...
...last week came bad news that got around: at Kaiser's Portland (Ore.) Swan Island yard the newly delivered 16,500-ton tanker Schenectady suddenly broke in half with a thunderous snap, settled in the water with its two-inch steel plates split clean asunder, the midship sections sticking out of the water like crags...
...miles, a record still. As he worked with his racers, he evolved a boat that could jump over logs and even small spits of land without injuring propeller or other vital organs. From this grew the Higgins Eureka, a 36-foot motorboat with a spoonbill bow, a V midship section, and a semi-tunnel protecting the propeller, so sturdy that it can rush right up on a beach without hurting itself...
...period (8 to 9:50 p.m.) until he turns in at 10:05 (except Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, which are free). About 55% of his studies are engineering and mathematics, 25% professional (seamanship, navigation, gunnery, naval history), 20% cultural (English, history and government, U.S. foreign policy, foreign languages). Every midship man must learn to handle small boats (oars and sails). To graduate, he must also pass tests in swimming, life saving, muscle strength, boxing, wrestling...