Word: staff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usually staid Cambridge scene. Just as World War II did things for Harvard, however, the University did things for World War II. 25,540 of the almost 100,000 living alumni and students served in the Allied forces and 455 of them never returned. In addition, 654 Faculty and staff members, one-third of the peacetime total, were serving in either military or government capacities...
...then to Secretary of the Navy Knox, who arranged for Morison to receive a commission as a Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve--provided he passed the physical. With characteristic vigor and energy, Morison started out by himself in May, 1942; by V-J day he had a staff of five officers and three enlisted personnel. He was personally responsible for all that appeared in the history, and though he was commissioned to write it, it was not "official" since neither Morison nor the Navy wanted a mere outline of facts without judgements, an uncritical chronicle or catalogue...
Young & Eager. For Horace Stoneham's Giants are young, eager and bursting with base hits. Last year they scored more runs (727) than any other team in the National League, led the league for brief periods until early August, when the inadequate pitching staff finally folded completely. Explains Manager Bill Rigney: "We had to borrow tomorrow's pitching today, and it finally caught up with us." The Giants finished third, behind Milwaukee and Pittsburgh...
...darkened and withered and it remained in the stunted, non-growing condition. No more seedlings appeared on the negated side, though we held the experiment open for 20 days before digging, photographing and measuring each seed. Later one of the mathematicians on Dr. Rhine's staff at Duke University did a quick computation of the probability factor of this experiment. It came out over...
...wars ever fought. Flying Tiger an angry book, is almost as important for what it tells of its villains as it is for the love it accords to its hero. Yet, ironically, its villains cannot be thought of as bad men, only as fallible and shortsighted ones: Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, Chennault's theater commander, and General Clayton Bissell, Stilwell's second-in-command...