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In a small room on Dunster St., two Harvard students and a Physics professor are keeping a shipful of cadets in the Caribbean in touch with their families back home in Massachusetts.

Author: By Jocelyn B. Lamm, | Title: Sailors Tune in to Harvard Radio Club | 2/26/1983 | See Source »

The Panama Canal can be attacked in three general ways: 1) enemy saboteurs might block its locks or destroy its gates by blowing up a shipful of explosives on an apparently peaceful transit of the Ditch; 2) bombers launched from an enemy carrier at sea might succeed in a surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: THE STRATEGIC GEOGRAPHY OF THE CARIBBEAN SEA | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

Kane. Another illustrious tough guy who got a hand in Philadelphia last week was Elisha Kent Kane (1820-57). While scamping his studies as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, he came down with rheumatic fever, which left him with a bad heart. Undaunted, he studied medicine, got a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tough Guys | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

2) A shipful of passengers could not be safely evacuated because there is only one exit; novices would not know how to use a 'chute, probably would not jump if they had the chance. (Critic Graham: Let more exits be installed. Let passengers be instructed in 'chuting, as steamship passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Parachutes for Passengers? | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

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