Word: saws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This filmed and televised account of the war in Europe as Eisenhower saw it is the first public showing of thousands of feet of film shot on the battlefronts of World War II by combat and civilian cameramen and hitherto withheld for security reasons. It will be presented in 26 two-reel episodes of 20 minutes each...
...June 15, venerable, but slightly doddering, History 1 will join the ranks of Former Harvard Greats. Just after World War I the renowned back-breaker assumed its present form, surveying Western Europe from the Fall of Rome to the present. It saw glorious days under President Lowell as the core of Harvard education, a pre-requisite for every undergraduate in History, Government, and Economics. In recent years, however, its age has begun to show, and its passing is no surprise...
...August, 1941, he entered the Navy as a public relations officer and was soon transferred to sea duty on the U.S.S. Enterprise. Four years aboard "The Big E," he saw it through almost every major Pacific naval campaign from Santa Cruz and Guadalcanal to the Gilberts and Marshalls. He was paid off in 1946 as the ship's First Lieutenant. Today, his ground-floor office at the northeast corner of Weld is still littered with books and documents about the war, which he is using in preparation of a pictures-and-text book commemorating the exploits and crew...
Then came World War I. J. P. Marquand saw action, rose to the rank of captain, but (though he later recalled it effectively in So Little Time) the war roused in him no Hemingway impulses to write about it. "Of course I got frightened to death on a number of occasions and I saw a lot of people get killed, but I don't think it did very much...
Crimson track and field men finished sixth Saturday night in the second annual Heptagonal Games which saw nine meet records fall as Army emerged on top of the 10 team heap with 5 1/2 first places and 54 5/6 points. Yale came in second with 44 points, Cornell third with 27, Princeton fourth with 20, Pennsylvania fifth with 16, and Harvard sixth with...