Word: naval
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Minot completed his undergraduate work here in 1938, concentrating in physics. After a short session of teaching mathematics at Milton Academy, he entered the Navy, where he trained at the Naval Academy Nautical and Engineering Reserve School, and at the Pre-Radar Naval Training School at Bowdoin College...
Following this training, he served as an instructor in physics and radar at the Naval Research Laboratory's Radio Material School in Washington, D. C., and as a lecturer and laboratory instructor at the Bowdoin Pre-Radar School. Last year he completed his studies at the Graduate School of Education here. Like Bradford, Minot will work with upperclassmen, but his work will keep him in University Hall full-time...
...surged on, piled furniture in through doors and windows, tossed out lumber from the ground floor, settled eleven families for the night. Outside, on the sign which read: "Naval recruiting daily 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. evening 7-9 p.m. Mon-Thurs" someone scrawled, "Hanratty was here...
...converted into classrooms for 700 reservists and housed an estimated half a million dollars worth of hush-hush asdic, radio and radar equipment. The worried Navy threatened to turn off the water and electricity. Hanratty admitted that Operation Carleton had been "rash," began moving the vets out of the Naval barracks to other squat houses: Kildare, Porter's Island, Argyle, Lansdowne...
...University of Dayton), he went to Cornell. But he spent less time on studies than driving around the countryside. (His taste in cars used to lean towards Rolls-Royces; now he owns a Lincoln.) When World War I came, he got his first taste of aviation as a naval aviator...