Word: naval
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woodpile. After Garland's departure Friday, Harlow jumped six men into the Varsity locker room and invited them to scramble for jobs. With no results of the scramble available as yet, the outlook still seems muddled. Big Tom Fell, veteran of three years of college and naval football, seems to have the inside track at the moment, but he's not more than a step ahead of 200-pound George Hauptfuhrer, Willard McDaniel, Bob Kennedy (son of Ambassador Joe,) 1942 letterman Len Cummings, and Walt Coulson, 1944 star...
Perhaps the most important building move, however, has been the erection of Vanserg Hall, just east of the Biological Laboratories, near Francis Street. This structure, named after the famed contributor of the first dollar of Harvard's endowment, contains offices of the Veterans' Administration, Naval Science department, and Electronic Research laboratories, and also a Graduates' dining hall...
...were aboard the cruisers that fateful night have been rightfully indignant at being referred to by the press as the "sitting duck cruisers" (we were steaming at 12 knots as specified by naval defense plans), but the crux of all insults was the inference in your article that the men in command of the individual ships were not of the caliber to hold such responsibilities. ... If there was ever an unreasonable martinet, a Captain Bligh of the U.S. Navy-Captain Bode was it, but when it came to naval warfare, logical thinking, cool judgment and action...
...sorry animal survivors of the Bikini atom blasts were headed home. At the Naval Research Center at Bethesda, Md experts would study the effects of radiation-lesions, recoveries or lingering deaths. In other laboratories other experts were already hard at work on Bikini clinical material. Out of their studies, they hoped would come better understanding of "radiation sickness," newest, most fascinating and terrifying of man's self-inflicted ills...
...Naval Medical Research Institute made its war-developed insect repellent #448 available to the public. Sprayed, it kills the insects it hits, and chases off newcomers. Rubbed on the skin, it keeps crawlers and biters away for at least eight hours...