Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Morison writes of naval action with crisp, unemotional sureness. At other times he is unforgivably slapdash. The Battle of the Atlantic is loaded with information, but stuffed rather than packed...
...other forward berth, an open battle for starting nod rages between Clif Crosby, ex-Jayvee who has grown two inches since last year, and Walt McCurdy, voted most valuable player in the Navy for his outstanding work with the Iowa Seahawks, naval national champions...
...replace aging Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz as Chief of Naval Operations, President Truman last week picked Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, 56, commander of the Pacific Fleet. A onetime chief of naval personnel, Denfeld was a proved administrator, well-liked on Capitol Hill, but no airman. It was a clear-cut victory for the Navy's tightly knit battleship clique...
...Crimson NROTC rifle team traveled to Tufts yesterday to face the Jumbo Naval sharpshooters, dropping a close decision by a 827 to 910 count. The match, fired on the enemy range, was a shoulder-to-shoulder competition...
...stay afloat in a Third World War, the navies of the world will have to sink beneath the waves--this was the paradoxical prediction yesterday of Samuel Eliot Morison '07, naval expert and Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History...