Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Royal Canadian Navy up from rachitic infancy to lusty manhood headed this week across the Atlantic. Wiry Vice Admiral Percy Walker Nelles (rhymes with Hellas), C.B., had left his post of Chief of the Naval Staff at Ottawa after ten years. He had shifted the flag of the Senior Canadian Naval officer to London, to direct his ships and men in the invasion of Europe...
Died. Ann Clare Brokaw, 19, daughter of Connecticut Representative Clare Boothe Luce and Henry R. Luce; in an automobile accident in Palo Alto, Calif. A senior in Stanford University, majoring in political science and philosophy, she was on her way with a classmate to register for her last term. Congresswoman Luce was in California to spend her vacation with her daughter before proceeding on a speaking tour...
What do you think, Hoover?" Student Hoover, a senior, disputed the freshman's judgment. But he lingered to talk to her of other things...
...senior year he was All-Southern tackle, and still has the bodily grace of muscular self-control. He has what baseball people call "a good pair of hands" -large, capable, well-coordinated. He talks with few gestures, but his speech is superb in exactness, his voice even but never monotonous. When he dresses a man down, there is no profanity, no shouting, not even the chill look of traditional military anger. But his ire burns like hell. These personal explosions of his are rarely and consciously utilized tools: he can turn them on & off like a spigot...
Died. Dr. Russell Henry Chittenden, 87, discoverer of protein, longtime director of Yale's Sheffield Scientific School (1898-1922); in New Haven, As a 19-year-old Sheffield senior, he was the first to isolate in living tissue a free amino acid, found in it the glycocoll and glycogen later famed as protein...