Word: unite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been passed to the accompaniment of clanging street cars and vociferously tooting taxis, the out-of-town athletes must trudge, bag in hand, through the baffling intricacies of Boston's subway system before finally reaching their destination. All this would be changed if Harvard had a dormitory unit which could house the visiting warriors, such as the Ray Tompkins House at Yale, or the Davis Field House at Dartmouth...
...Naval Science Department, which is limited to 200 men by federal law, will have no such increase in the enrollment, C. H. J. Keppler, captain of the U. S. Navy and professor in Naval Science and Tactics, stated yesterday, Congress has authorized R. O. t. C. units to be established at two new universities, but it has not changed the Harvard Unit, he explained...
...strike an object while running 25 miles an hour is just the same as if we fell from a height of 20.9 feet ... it is possible to survive this impact although it is just about the shock limit for the human body ... we call this quantity . . . one Danger Unit...
...change deprived him of control of the General Headquarters Air Force. When that unit was established in 1935 as the Army's combat air force, it was placed outside the Air Corps proper. For a further check rein, its first commanding officer (Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews) was made directly responsible to the Chief of Staff. The GHQ Air Force now takes its place in the Air Corps and its new C. O. (Major General Delos CArleton Emmons) will be responsible to Henry Arnold alone...
...unit is approximately the weight of the hydrogen atom (or, precisely, 1/16 the weight of the oxygen atom...