Word: seniorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young P-40 pilots and their senior officers do not smile when they ponder the possibilities of air attack on the Eastern seaboard. Their job is to think about it and prepare for it as best they can. They know the Atlantic routes by which attack could come, whatever the cost in enemy planes and pilots...
After a hot but inconclusive debate in the House of Commons, the Government fortnight ago announced a series of "im provements." Most important: to have senior officers who are able to make decisions instead of queasy middle-rankers of Army, Navy & Air Force stationed as censors at the Ministry-an improvement similar to that which the U.S. Army & Navy got around to last spring...
...midst of all its woes, the British press last week had something to console it: Witty, intelligent Sir Gerald Campbell, recently promoted from a berth as Senior Minister of the British Embassy in Washington to a more important job as headman of the British information services in the U.S., was in London fighting the Battle of Bloomsbury on behalf of better news...
Under a huge tent, the sheriff of Middlesex County rapped three times with his scabbard, roared: "The meeting will come to order." While three undergraduate orators delivered their "parts," Lord Halifax took notes. Cried Senior Lemuel Serrell Hillman, of Grand Rapids, Mich...
...last week Hoppy, who believes that "democracy might have to be willing to forgo itself to be able to save itself," was heartened by a recent change in Dartmouth undergraduate sentiment. A plurality of the senior class had plumped for immediate declaration of war on Germany. This week, as he dismissed 499 graduates at Dartmouth's 172nd commencement, he declared...