Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louisville, Ky., a naval recruit was rejected because of a nude woman tattooed on his arm. Two days later he reappeared. On the girl was a bathing suit. Accepting the application, Lieut. Commander C. R. Woodson said: "He showed perseverance and resourcefulness...
...support of its proposal for a Physics-Mathematics course, the Council cited the heads of both R.O.T.C. units at Harvard, as backing the plan because it would "provide men interested ultimately in becoming officers with information regarded as a prerequisite for being a valuable recruit and for promotion...
This is probably one good reason why Harvard football teams, which demand a power-house build, have been so much less successful than the famed crews, which recruit taller and more supple athletes, Dr. Seltzer conjectured...
...such an atmosphere the Corps becomes, to a likely recruit, a sort of religion...
American Defense, Harvard Group, is only four months old, but it is a lusty infant. Since its birth last July, 400 Faculty members have unselfishly devoted their time, thought, and money to the work of the group, which has found homes for 100 refugee children helped recruit Harvard graduates for a Navy cruise, joined in building national morale, sponsored innumerable broad casts, speeches, and forums, and turned out hundreds of newspaper articles and "letters to the editor...