Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Confidence. Just how good was the Navy's case? Obviously, the plain speech of patriotic men could not be dismissed as the whimpering of a proud service which now saw itself reduced to a second line of defense. It was clear that the Navy deeply distrusted Secretary of Defense Johnson, who had fathered the big-bomber program when he was Assistant Secretary of War before World War II, and had summarily canceled the Navy's supercarrier without consulting the Navy...
...Michigan saw the band, which made its longest trip up to that time, in 1938, when Harvard played at Ann Arbor. Help from the HAA and generous alumni sent the musicians, who up to 1937 had paid all their expenses out of their own pockets...
More money from contributions enabled the band to make several trips that fall, including one to Princeton. It was here that a New Yorker correspondent heard, saw, and went home to write that the Harvard Band was "the best in the business," a nickname that has become synonymous with the Harvard Band, and, to most students and alumni, a correct evaluation...
...This is the introduction to a series of articles on what American students did and saw in Europe this summer. The later articles will take up the story country by country.)A cyclist in France puts the finishing touches on his luggage. Cobblestones have an insidious way of shaking it loose. They also shake loose all the screws, and bolts on the bicycle, and occasionally they fold the frame up like an accordion...
...best tipper was a certain Captain Davenport. Housemaid Edie learns why the Captain was sometimes so generous. Going into Mrs. Jack's bedroom as usual one morning, when old Mrs. Tennant is absent from the castle, Edie draws back the curtains and the sun streams in. "She saw a quick stir beside the curls under which Mrs. Jack's head lay asleep, she caught sight of someone else's hair as well . . . retreating beneath the silk sheets." Dumfounded, Edie scuttles off to Housemaid Kate. "I seen the hair of 'is 'ead," she screams; "the Captain...