Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gelck's sub-par performance in the broad jump enabled George Walker of Oxford to edge him with a jump of only 22 feet 7 inches. Oxford-Cambridge clinched the meet with an easy win by Chataway in the mile (4:15) and a one yard victory in the sprint relay. The Americans stared in disbelief at the 9-4 score as they quietly trooped off the field. "Somehow the whole meet just seemed like a bad dream," is the way one of the runners...
...been too much help. Their watches show a disparity of from three to five minutes. Even if they did want to help out the situation a little by dismissing a class by consulting their own time-pieces, they cannot fight temptation. Even the strongest minded lecturer succumbs before the sub-conscious impulse which grips him to avoid the impartial face of his watch and run on a little overtime. He will wade through a stirring peroration and seem relatively oblivious of everything, until suddenly he gropes around in his pocket and comes up with the observation that...
Silent Service. No one knows better than U.S. submariners themselves how deadly a sub can be. In 1941, when the proud surface Navy suffered the disaster of Pearl Harbor, a handful of nerveless men had pointed the sharp prows of so-odd U.S. subs toward Japan and written a record of blood and battle unsurpassed in U.S. naval history. Not one of them had ever before fired a torpedo in battle (U.S. subs engaged mainly in uneventful patrol work in World War I), but for two years they were almost the entire U.S. offensive force in the Pacific...
...Sturgeon no longer virgin") radioed back to COMSUBPAC headquarters at Pearl Harbor. From their voyages came stories of watching horse races in Tokyo Bay through their periscopes, of torpedoing a new Jap carrier as it slid down the ways, of receiving as many as 400 and 500 depth charges. Subs became the work horses of the fleet: they rescued 504 downed flyers, carried high-priority cargo and VIPs, charted enemy beaches before invasions, staged commando raids, acted as radio and weather stations for the Air Force. Threading their way through plodding Jap convoys, sub skippers set up targets at night...
Inside Siberia. Not far from where the new Trigger was being fitted out at Groton, Conn, last week, a special section of the Electric Boat Co. yard known as "Siberia" was under a tight, 24-hour guard. There, civilian sub builders and the Navy's top engineers and designers are engaged in a giant gamble. They are working, not on a U.S. version of the XXVI, but on what the Navy hopes will be an answer to Russia's super-subs: an atomic killer submarine. Longer and wider than present-day subs, she would be powered by virtually...