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Word: staffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seamen explained, to landlubbers, last week, that a captain turns over the management of his ship to the commander and when an admiral comes on board, the captain then becoming (to use a military simile) the admiral's chief of staff. Ordinarily the possibilities of friction which lurk in such an interlocked command are smoothed over by the formulae of tradition. Last week, however, the captain and commander of the Royal Oak were understood to have filed complaints with the Admiralty alleging that Rear Admiral Collars had grossly and persistently overstepped the bounds of his authority and shamefully browbeaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Royal Oak | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...last day [of the War] and the last hour, and almost the last minute, when to glorify the Canadian Headquarters Staff, the Commander-in-Chief conceived the mad idea that it would be a fine thing to say that the Canadians had fired the last shot in the Great War and had captured the last German entrenchments before the bugles sounded 11 o'clock, when the armistice which had been signed by both sides would begin officially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Libel? | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

Although the case will not come up for trial until April 16th, General Currie made public, last week, a quantity of Staff reports which appeared to show that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Libel? | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

Among the members of the delegation will be J. F. Dwinnell '04, a member of the Boston executive staff, and M. F. Amsden '25, who has been with the company for two years. Appointments for the interviews, which will be held in the Union, may be made through the Student Employment Office, University Hall, for anytime during the day on tomorrow, Friday, or Saturday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIORS TO BE OFFERED POSTS IN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY | 3/21/1928 | See Source »

...Gibbs '27, former CRIMSON editorial chairman and now a member of the staff of the New York World, will take the affirmative side of the question Lothrop Withington '11 and M. A. Check '26 will be his colleagues. The former is president of the Harvard Club of Boston, and in his undergraduate days was a prominent football and crew man Cheek, who likewise favors enlargement of the Stadium, was captain of the 1928 football team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO MORE SPEAKERS FOR STADIUM DEBATE NAMED | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

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