Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...qualifications for the life that you are about to take up, I put loyalty first ... loyalty to your senior officers and to your subordinates," Rear Admiral Wat T. Cluverius, U.S.N. (Ret), President of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, declared at the August graduation exercises of the Naval Training School (Communications) held Saturday morning in Sanders Theatre...
...Parana River from rich Argentina came two mine layers and a delegation of nine officials led by Rear Admiral Eleazar Videla. Out of the sky from Bolivia came nine planeloads of officials; from Brazil more airplanes; from Chile a delegation with Foreign Minister Joaquin Fernández; from Uruguay U.S. Ambassador William Dawson. From as far away as Costa Rica came others...
...always the hope that one of the offensive steps will aggravate the Jap into sending out his battleships and carriers. They are confident that the Pacific fleet, aided by growing air power, will come out of any showdown victorious. The Jap has declined to risk it. According to Rear Admiral DeWitt Clinton Ramsey, back in Washington last week from commanding a South Pacific carrier task force, the Jap must save his heavy naval units to protect his long lines of communication. With the retaking of Kiska those lines of communication are threatened from the north...
...Rickey had come to Brooklyn to win ball games. He could not let the ruckus at the rear confuse the front line. Dodger veterans that were haloed for Brooklynites were just too old for Rickey. Of the National League's 24 ten-year men, Brooklyn owned eight (St. Louis: none). Good major-league clubs had a 26-year average; Brooklyn averaged 32. So the captains and the kings departed. Rickey had little left, but at least what remained was no longer "dangerous."* He had broken ground for a typical Rickey machine. Ingredients: youth, sweat, audacity...
Into the library hush of the quasi-official U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, an admiral tossed a small bomb with a big bang. The Admiral: sharp-minded Rear Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell, 67, formerly in command of the Asiatic Fleet, called from retirement in June to active duty in the office of COM INCH Admiral Ernest J. King. The bomb: a well-weighed proposal that the U.S. combine Army, Navy and air forces into a single, unified Department...