Word: strong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strong-minded men stated strong-minded opinions, and for the most part they differed only in detail and in intensity. Rear Admiral Ralph Ofstie, in his younger days one of the Navy's hottest pilots, a wartime carrier commander, Navy member of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey of Japan and of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Evaluation Group at Bikini, declared that atomic area bombing would be little more than "random mass slaughter" and militarily unsound. Strategic bombing, he said, did not have a decisive effect in World War II. Cried Ofstie, "It is time that strategic bombing...
...whole affair was highly informal, with Tech the only boat taking life seriously. As far as the other two crews went, it was little more than old home week, for the Union Boat Club's shell was filled with recent Crimson alumnae, including such prominent oars as Frank Strong, Don Felt, and Dick Emmet...
...Boat Club crew, made up entirely of former Harvard varsity and jayvee to MIT and the College varsity, although the boat has only been together for a week. Lane Burton, stroke, was on its '46 crew; Frank Strong, at six, captained the varsity in '43. Don Felt, number four man, rowed on the crew in '48 and '49; Dick Emmet, number three, held a position on the varsity in '47 and '48. The balance of the crew, Bob Taggart at five, Nat Ober at seven, and bowman Hargo Hansen, were jayvees in '48 or '49. (Hansen in better known...
...freshmen have only been able to score six goals in five games this year, three of them coming in the opener against Tabor. A strong defense, which has yielded only five goals so far has accounted for the team's record of three wins and two losses...
...high point of the afternoon came when one student demanded to know whether the Coop hired negroes. Mr. Cole became strong-voiced and frenzied. "There is no discrimination in the Harvard Cooperative Society." he proclaimed dramatically. "There won't be any! We've had negroes, we've had Chinese, we've had Indians, we've had Japs, but"--as an afterthought--"we still haven't had Malays." The student was satisfied by the answer, and the rest of the meeting came as an anti-climax...