Word: select
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Harvard intramural program gets going, the 4-platoon Specialists League will select an all-star group to represent our section of Harvard-at-war. Meanwhile, the aforementioned 1st Platoon (also known as the Left Bank Chapter of the Charles River Tombstone Carvers' and Trolley Motormen's Marching and Chowder Association, Especially Marching) is currently leading the Specialists League by virtue of having whaled the blithering daylights out of each of the other three clubs last week...
Administering the program is the Training Division of the Bureau of Naval Personnel. The Bureau, through Commander Charles Wesley Shilling, M.C., U.S.N., a submarine doctor since the early days of escape training, set up the machinery to select the right men for the new ships, and to pick the best men for such special tasks as lookout duty...
Once admitted to this select company, a submariner rarely leaves voluntarily (though he may if he likes). He must be pushed out by age (40 is old) or disability or promotion. Many a sub captain (usually a lieutenant commander) regrets the third full stripe which costs him his ship and sends him to a more comfortable billet afloat or ashore...
...studying for tests, quizzes, brain teasers and feats of physical strength for the past two weeks... It's getting so bad that we study for the exams before we know who the teacher is or what course we are going to take....I am now with that very select group of men who go to the Study Hall every night...we get a lot of things done there....I washed out seven pairs of socks and a dozen of handkerchiefs just before they took muster of those present the other night...I'm thinking of taking up knitting next week...
...marked the starting time for a series of practical and theoretical tests and demonstrations by select units of the R.O.T.C. The Field Artillery demonstrated gun drill with four 105 hewitzer guns; the science of managing artillery battalions at field headquarters; motorized drill with a battery of 75a, infantry foot drill, and Army calisthenics...