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Other individual electives following Mathematics in the list of favored courses are Social Relations 1 (377); Philosophy A (362); English 1 (355); Chemistry A (353); French C (334); German A (312); Biology D (314); Government 4a (300); and Music 1 (300). Naval Science has a combined course enrollment of 103 students...
...growing U.S. resentment of his attitude, Maximos hastily declared that he had no objections to import controls. Meanwhile, encouraged by the U.S. promise, the Government started an all-out offensive against the Communist-led guerrillas in Macedonia and Thessaly, throwing in an estimated 60,000 troops, naval and air units...
...British Naval Surgeon James Lind (1716-94) wondered enviously why sauerkraut-eating Dutch sailors got less scurvy than his tars on long voyages. He guessed right, recommended citrus fruits to supply what science years later called vitamin C. In 1795, Earl Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty, ordered lemons or limes included in the daily diet on British ships. Soon British sailors and then the whole British people became known as "limeys." "Limey" bears no etymological relation to "Blimey," or to Limehouse, a London dock district named for an old lime kiln, or oast...
Caribbean ports from Colon to Guantanamo Bay will play host to Harvard Naval ROTC students on their cruise this summer, when at least 39 men will accompany naval task forces on trips of varying lengths in the West Indies...
After a week's layover in the Canal Zone, the force will move east to the islands. Port of Spain, Trinidad, and San Juan will be visited by the group for three days each, before a week of gunnery practice at the Guantanamo, Cuba, Naval Base. Hamilton, Bermuda, and New York City are the last stops...