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Word: naval (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...despite efforts of a whole armada of U.S. and Canadian naval and air search units,* there was no sign of the other five airmen. A U.S. Coast Guard plane searching the island at week's end broadcast the national anthem and a message to the missing five: "Don't give up hope; we are still looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Abandon Ship | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...years later Greece and Turkey were at war in Asia Minor. Having worked hard at correspondence courses, Godfrey finally had to choose between waiting for an appointment to the Naval Academy or shipping as radioman third class on a destroyer flotilla heading for the Mediterranean. "I had missed World War I," he says, "and I wasn't going to miss this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Oceans of Empathy | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...informer clause" of the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps loyalty oath is inconsistent "with both the purposes of the loyalty program and the Republican principle of freedom of the individual," the Young Republicans said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HYRC Hits at Loyalty Oath | 2/24/1950 | See Source »

Built in 1936, the machine was one of this country's first atom-smashing devices and played a large part in making the atom bomb. It was currently, being used on a nuclear research project for the Office of Naval Research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fire at Princeton Ruins Cyclotron; Magnets Salvaged | 2/23/1950 | See Source »

Here at the Naval Academy a very quaint system known as the "plebe system" is effect. Under such a system upperclassmen have the privilege of asking plebes, or freshmen, silly questions. I am a plebe, and I have just been asked a silly question which I believe you may be able to answer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Silly Question | 2/21/1950 | See Source »

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