Word: transfers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After five years of trying, the U.S. was finally going to get back two icebreakers it lent the Russians as part of the Soviet's $11 billion worth of Lend-Lease aid. The two ships will sail for Bremerhaven for transfer to U.S. hands before month's end, said a Soviet note. Promised two years ago, they have been stuck in the ice off Siberia, according to the Russians, and have apparently just become unstuck. The transfer will reduce the total number of lend-leased U.S. naval and merchant vessels still unreturned and unpaid for by the Russians...
...cartoons today would not find the popularity they did in World War II. The AWOL rate is down, even the use of profanity has fallen off (at least in Stateside camps). "Little Joe" gripes about his officers, distrusts politics and government (it is universally believed that "Harry Vaughan can transfer any man"). He does not go in for heroics, or believe in them. He is short on ideals, lacks self-reliance, is for personal security at any price. He singularly lacks flame. In spite of this, he makes a good, efficient soldier-relying on superior firepower...
Saturday's game is the best example the University has seen in a long time of what Harvard football can be. Those 60 minutes showed that it doesn't take subsidized athletes and professionals to make an exciting game. Perhaps the paid prophets of doom-who transfer their revelations through Remingtons--will think about this before they again attack the College team and its Coach who put up with all the noise and keep on working...
Until 1718 the Collegiate School wandered around in various small Connecticut towns, always under the heavy influence of Harvard and Harvard men. Its first full-time instructor was Daniel Hooker 1700. Its first B.A. was awarded to John Hart, a transfer student from the Harvard Class of 1704. Indeed, The Collegiate School seemed rather anxious to accept Harvard transfers, while Cambridge authorities were at first unwilling to recognize Collegiate's degrees...
...transfer of Stargel from tackle to and is not too much of a surprise. The 202-pound junior, fairly fast for a player his size, alternated between the two positions on the '53 freshman team...